| 单词 | thimble |
| 释义 | thimble (once / 3170 pages) n WORD FAMILY thimble: thimbleful, thimbles+/thimbleful: thimblefuls USAGE EXAMPLESWorkers will build an additional two-lane tunnel under the Thimble Shoal Channel, west of the existing bridge-tunnel. Washington Times(Nov 16, 2016) Another game described in The Ledger involved burying three items — a dime, a ring and a thimble — in mashed potatoes. New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) And it was suffocatingly hot, and the poor extras were barely being offered a thimble of water. New York Times(Sep 13, 2016) 1n a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container Hyper cap something serving as a cover or protection containerany object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) 2n as much as a thimble will hold Syn|Hyper thimbleful containerful the quantity that a container will hold |
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