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Thimbleful :: Thimbleful (n.) As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (n.) A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea..

Thimblerigging :: Thimblerigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thimbleri.

Cringle :: Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc..

Unreeve :: Unreeve (v. t.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like..

Thimbleberry :: Thimbleberry (n.) A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.

Thimblerigged :: Thimblerigged (imp. & p. p.) of Thimbleri.

Thimblefuls :: Thimblefuls (pl. ) of Thimblefu.

Clue :: Clue (n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.

Lizard :: Lizard (n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole..

Thimbleweed :: Thimbleweed (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles..

Thimbleeye :: Thimbleeye (n.) The chub mackerel. See under Chub.

Bushing :: Bushing (n.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.

Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle..

Stirt :: Stirrup (v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope..

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