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Definition of Thumbed
1. Adjective. (of pages) worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning. "Well-thumbed pages of the dictionary"
Definition of Thumbed
1. a. Having thumbs.
Definition of Thumbed
1. Adjective. (context: in combination) Having some specific type of thumb. ¹
2. Verb. (past of thumb) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thumbed
1. thumb [v] - See also: thumb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thumbed
Literary usage of Thumbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Book Auction Recordsby Frank Karslake by Frank Karslake (1906)
"Ills., orig. el., 1847 Sotheran, £i ios C. Mar. 14 The same. orig. el. (thumbed),
1847 Daymond, 45 J. Mar. ..."
2. Jackanapes: Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a Short Life by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Horatia K. F. Gatty (1887)
"By and by, when the newspapers came out, if he could get a look at one before it
was thumbed to bits, he would learn that the enemy had appeared from ambush ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1874)
"... ther and thumbed them as they hae been." David rose at short intervals from
his chair, lifted the heavy dark window-curtain, close drawn to exclude ..."
4. Ecclesiastical Chronicle for Scotland by James Frederick Skinner Gordon (1875)
"version, \vith Date thereupon, -was thumbed, Tabled, and Canonized in Bishop
Skinner's House, Longacre, AD 1811?* Mr. Walker visited the City of Rome on ..."
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