thimble

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.

   “She had worn a hole through her silver thimble, and wanted Owen to repair it.”

2. isim As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
3. isim A thimble or similar object used in thimblerig (“a game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three thimbles or small cups a pea-sized object has been placed after the person operating the game rapidly rearranges them”).
4. isim A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
5. isim A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.

   “The rope part is fitted with a thimble in one end, which is connected to the chain by means of a shackle; the other extremity is spliced around a heart, and goes with a laniard, as in the case of bobstays. The splice of the thimble and the heart should be served.”

6. isim A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.
7. fiil To use a thimble (noun sense 1).
8. fiil To sew.