Crossword-Solution: THUMBSCREW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thumbscrew | n. | A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger. |
| Thumbscrew | n. | An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “THUMBSCREW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Easily turned metal fastener | 1 answer |
| Index, middle, ring and pinkie fingers? | 1 answer |
| Relative of a wingnut | 1 answer |
| Tightening gadget | 1 answer |
| Tom's hands are put into torture implement | 1 answer |
| Torturer's tool | 1 answer |
| INSTRUMENT of torture | 2 answers |
| Torture device | 3 answers |
| Piece of hardware | 6 answers |
| BELT TIGHTENING | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZACEME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with THUMBSCREW (5)
Once more, the plotter plunged up to the neck in damaging disclosures: now it would be the name and biography of an individual, now the address of some important centre, that rose, as if by accident, upon his lips; and each word was like another turn of the thumbscrew to his unhappy guest.
Nuflo probably knew more than he would say; I had failed, as we have seen, to win the secret from him by fair means, and could not have recourse to foul--the rack and thumbscrew--to wring it from him.
You and your friends are applying the last turn of the thumbscrew, not I--” She smothered the cry of horror that had risen to her lips.
Promptly, without tremulous counting of costs, he always starts up, solid as oak, on the occurrence of such a thing, and says, "That is unjust; contrary to the Treaty of Westphalia; you will have to put down that!"--And if words avail not, his plan is always the same: Clap a similar thumbscrew, pressure equitably calculated, on the Catholics of Prussia; these can complain to their Popes and Jesuit Dignitaries: these are under thumbscrew till the Protestant pressure be removed.
Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings of the American people.
Quotes with THUMBSCREW (2)
I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw the iron arguments that Christians used. I saw the Thumbscrew — two little pieces of iron, armed on the inner surfaces with protuberances, to prevent their slipping; through each end a screw uniting the two pieces. And when some man denied the efficacy of baptism, or may be said, 'I do no…
Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not, there is only one really important argument, and that, for some reason or other, is never offered. People say that specialists are inhuman; but that is unjust. People say an expert is not a man; but that is unkind and untrue. The real difficulty about the specialist or expert is much more singular and fascinating. The trouble with the expert is never …
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1985–2012).