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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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Lizard :: Lizard (n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

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

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing..

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

Raspberry :: Raspberry (n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry..

Thimblerigged :: Thimblerigged (imp. & p. p.) of Thimbleri.

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

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

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

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

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.

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

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

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

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