thumbikins

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbkin or thumbscrew.

   “[S]end me that hag hither; she shall avouch what it was that she hath given to the wretch Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger-joints.”

2. isim plural of thumbikin