thimble
Speech parts
1. thimble - Noun
2. thimble - Verb
Meaning
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.
Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.
A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.
A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
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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Examples
I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.
And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.