Thumbkin

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A thumb-screw, or set of thumb-screws; the torture by this instrument. See cut under thumb-screw.
  • Word Usage
    ""The monks of Vera Cruz can best tell thee where little 'thumbkin' is.""
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    thumbscrew