Množina: thimbles

A type element, similar to a daisy wheel, that bears a full character set, with each character on a separate type bar. As with a daisy wheel, the spokes, or type bars, radiate out from a central hub. On a thimble print element, however, each type bar is bent 90 degrees at its halfway point, so the type bars stick straight up with the type facing away from the hub. See also thimble printer. Compare daisy wheel, daisy-wheel printer.

Množina: thimbles

ETYM Old Eng. thimbil, as. thimel, from thma a thumb. Related to Thumb.
1. A small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container.
2. As much as a thimble will hold; SYN. thimbleful.

Množina: thimble printers

A printer that uses a thimble print element, best known in a line of printers from NEC. Because these printers use fully formed characters like those on a typewriter, they generate letter-quality output that is indistinguishable from that of a typewriter. This includes the slight impression created by the type hitting the paper hard through the ribbon, which distinguishes this type of printout from that of laser printers. See also thimble. Compare daisy-wheel printer.

Množina: thimble-riggers

Množina: thimbleberries

Any of several American raspberries or blackberries (especially Rubus occidentalis, r. parviflorus, and r. odoratus) having thimble-shaped fruit

Množina: thimblefuls

1. As much as a thimble will hold
2. A very small quantity

Množina: thimblerigs

1. A swindling trick in which a small ball or pea is quickly shifted from under one to another of three small cups to fool the spectator guessing its location
2. One who manipulates the cup in thimblerig; thimblerigger

1. To cheat by trickery
2. To swindle by thimblerig

Singular of thimbles is thimble.

Množina: thimbleweeds

A common North American anemone with cylindrical thimblelike fruit clusters; SYN. Anemone cylindrica.