thumbikins

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. plural of thumbikin form-of,plural

词形变化

thumbikins plural
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