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What (who) is thumbscrew - definition
Thumbscrew
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Thumbscrews; Thumb screws; Thumb screw; Thumbscrew (disambiguation)
·noun An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.
II. Thumbscrew ·noun A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.
thumbscrew
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Thumbscrews; Thumb screws; Thumb screw; Thumbscrew (disambiguation)
also thumb screw
(thumbscrews)
1.
A thumbscrew is an object that was used in the past to torture people by crushing their thumbs.
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2.
If someone puts the thumbscrews on you, they start to put you under extreme pressure in order to force you to do something.
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thumbscrew
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Thumbscrews; Thumb screws; Thumb screw; Thumbscrew (disambiguation)
¦ noun
1. an instrument of torture that crushes the thumbs.
2. a screw with a protruding winged or flattened head for turning with the thumb and forefinger.
Examples of use of thumbscrew
1. The best that Jordan has offered is a memorandum of understanding, which sounds one stop short of the thumbscrew.
2. Those prisoners designated for other tortures – from the rack to the thumbscrew – would have been dragged from the dungeon to a separate torture chamber.
3. All right, it can work but let‘s keep the thumbscrew under lock and key David Aaronovitch IN SAN GIMIGNANO, when the tourist tires of all that piazza and vista stuff, she can always take a break and go and visit the museum of torture.
4. Inside the pleasant medieval town–house are exhibited all kinds of devices that you will have heard of the rack, the thumbscrew, the iron maiden; and quite a few that you havent, though most of those are just for gouging various body parts.