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Lizard :: Lizard (n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole..

Stirt :: Stirrup (v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope..

Bush :: Bush (n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

Unreeve :: Unreeve (v. t.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like..

Thimbleberry :: Thimbleberry (n.) A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing..

Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel..

Thimbleeye :: Thimbleeye (n.) The chub mackerel. See under Chub.

Clue :: Clue (n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes..

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Lady''s Thimble :: Lady's thimble () The harebell.

Thimblerigger :: Thimblerigger (n.) One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain..

Thimblerigging :: Thimblerigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thimbleri.

Thimbleful :: Thimbleful (n.) As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (n.) A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.

Bushing :: Bushing (n.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.

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