thumbscrew

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

an instrument that was used in the past for TORTURING people by crushing their thumbs

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

thumbscrewEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus thumbscrewEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Where does this definition of thumbscrew come from?

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Is thumbscrew a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, thumbscrew is tagged as noun.

Does thumbscrew appear elsewhere on Lughet?

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