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Stirt :: Stirrup (v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope..

Thimbleful :: Thimbleful (n.) As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.

Reeve :: Reeve (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like..

Thimblerigger :: Thimblerigger (n.) One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain..

Clue :: Clue (n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.

Lady''s Thimble :: Lady's thimble () The harebell.

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (n.) A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) 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..

Thimbleeye :: Thimbleeye (n.) The chub mackerel. See under Chub.

Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes..

Cringle :: Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc..

Thimblefuls :: Thimblefuls (pl. ) of Thimblefu.

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.

Thimbleweed :: Thimbleweed (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles..

Skein :: Skein (n.) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

Thimblerigging :: Thimblerigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thimbleri.

Unreeve :: Unreeve (v. t.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole..

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