(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:48:23

Thumb"screw` (?), n.

1.

A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.

2.

An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.

 

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