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Definition of Thumbkin
1. n. An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
Definition of Thumbkin
1. Noun. An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thumbkin
1. a screw that is turned by the thumb and fingers [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thumbkin
Literary usage of Thumbkin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Home Life Under the Stuarts, 1603-1649 by Jessie Bedford (1903)
"This rhyme is familiar to most of us — Dance, thumbkin, dance, Dance, thumbkin,
... But thumbkin he can dance alone, thumbkin he can dance alone. ..."
2. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places by G. F. Northall (1892)
"And so on, substituting in succession middle one, Longman, or middleman, ringman,
and littleman, and each verse terminating with " thumbkin he can," etc. ..."
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