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

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..

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

Cringle :: Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle..

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

Thimblefuls :: Thimblefuls (pl. ) of Thimblefu.

Reeve :: Reeve (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like..

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

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

Raspberry :: Raspberry (n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thimbleweed :: Thimbleweed (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles..

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