Crossword-Solution: THIMBLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Thimble | n. | Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. |
| Thimble | n. | A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes. |
| Thimble | n. | A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole. |
| Thimble | n. | A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England. |
| Thimble | n. | A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THIMBLE (5)
Matilda Angelina Araminta _Phelps!_” Whack comes the thimble, and the child snatches her claws out of the sugar-bowl without fooling around any.
She says: [Illustration: I reckon I got to be excused] “You’ll be excused! _you_ will! Well, I never heard the like of it in all my days! The idea of you talking like that to _me!_ Now take yourself off and pack your traps; and if I hear another word out of you about what you’ll be excused from and what you won’t, I lay _I’ll_ excuse you—with a hickory!” She hit his head a thump with her thimble as we dodged by, and he let on to be whimpering as we struck for the stairs.
Never were hands more exquisite than hers, and it was a joy to look at them when she threaded her needle or adjusted her gold thimble to her taper middle finger as she sewed away on the little night-drawers or fashioned a bodice or a bib.
Charlotte’s imagination took no journeys whatever; she kept it, as it were, in her pocket, with the other furniture of this receptacle—a thimble, a little box of peppermint, and a morsel of court-plaster.
Behrman and Genslinger and Shelgrim and the whole gang of thieves of you--you'll wake this State of California up some of these days by going just one little bit too far, and there'll be an election of Railroad Commissioners of, by, and for the people, that'll get a twist of you, my bunco-steering friend--you and your backers and cappers and swindlers and thimble-riggers, and smash you, lock, stock, and barrel.
Quotes with THIMBLE (3)
For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the f…
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....
There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1950–2019).