单词	thimble
释义	thimble From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthimblethim‧ble /ˈθɪmbəl/ noun [countable]  DCa small metal or plastic cap used to protect your finger when you are sewingExamples from the Corpusthimble• The beer bottle played in his big hands like a thimble.• Agnes, open that sewing box and pass me a thimble, will you?• He had the brains of a thimble.• The Phantom looks simple: A thimble is attached to a jointed arm made of black steel rods.• The shoe and the thimble in Monopoly have been replaced with little pills that help us along to Boardwalk.• The first person to find the thimble hides it the next time.• A child's game of hunt the thimble doesn't feel creative.• If Miss Bingham's idea for the band came to anything Henry just might ask him about playing that washboard with thimbles.Origin thimble Old English thymel “thumb-protector”, from thuma; → THUMB1
随便看	oriental orientalist orientate orientated orientated orientation oriented orienteering orienter orientera orientering orifice orificium origami origanon origanum origin Origin of Species at the time of at the time of something at the time when at the top at the top (of something) at the top etc at the top etc of

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