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plural thumbkins
(historical) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
(rare, childish) The thumb. quotations
Thumbkin is the pusher.Pointer shows us where to go.Tall-man wears the thimble,And helps us all to sew.
1895, Margaret Naomi MacArthur, Kindergarten Review, Finger Play, page 75