For bodkins and forthimbles Now let your tubsters cant; Their confounded tired cause Had never yet more want.
Here's the purse of the public faith; Here's the model of the Sequestration, When the old wives upon their good troth Lent thimbles to ruin the nation.
I can't abide brass things, that make your finger look like it had been dipped in ink, but thanks to my seven sisters who are all restin' comfortably in their graves, I have enough thimbles to provide quite a parcel of company.
A piece of rope, sometimes with two legs, and one or more iron thimbles spliced into it.
Ropes with thimbles at their ends, through which the foot-ropes are rove, and by which they are kept up toward the yards.
The buntlines of the courses reeve through double or triple blocks under the forward part of the top, down forward of the sail, sometimes through thimblesin the first reef-band, and are clinched to the foot of the sail.
Reeve the buntlines through the thimbles of the first reef-band forward, if they are made to go so, and toggle their ends to the foot of the sail, or carry them through the eyelet-holes and clinch them to their own parts.
A rope secured at each end to the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced into its bight, to hook the stay tackles to.
The topsail buntlines reeve forward through single blocks at the topmast-head, down through the thimbles of a lizard seized to the tye, just above the yard, and are clinched to the foot of the sail.
The thimbles were brought, and Peter sat down to explain.
The two walked along to the same bale of cotton which had witnessed the game before, and the gimlet man took the identical thimbles and ball which had served him before, from his pocket, and sat down, requesting the farmer to be seated also.
Three thimbles were next produced, and the game began.
The old-fashioned ring thimbles were usually carried on the belt hook of the needlecase, but modern thimbles require a box.
To the ends of the strap are hungthimbles "and other small articles liable to be lost.
Ned goes aloft in the night, unreeves the royal buntline, takes the thimbles from the sail, the block from the eyes of the rigging, and the thimbles from the tie, and stows them all away.
And wasn't it good in him to give gold thimbles to Gracie and me?
It was probably never made with the thimbles of the right sort of leather (horse-butt), as the softer and more pliable sorts of leather would be more suitable to fit all comers.
The comparatively modern finger-tips or thimbles connected by straps at the back of the hand and buckled on round the wrist must have been used with the same slashing sort of loose.
The thimbles are then so gently moved, that any one can follow them.
They immediately took up their board, thimbles and all, and left the place, apparently in considerable alarm, some taking one direction and some another.
The man in charge of the board and thimbleslooked like a journeyman blacksmith or plumber.
One or more iron thimbles with a rope spliced round them, sometimes forming a kind of tail, but more generally a species of grummet.
A rope secured at each end of the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced in its bight to hook the stay-tackles to.
These are rove through thimbles at the eyes of the top-mast and top-gallant rigging, one end bent to the lift and brace, the other into the top.
The traveller is a strong parrel-strop which passes round the mast, and through two thimbles of which the breast backstays reeve.
It is used to confine some ropes which pass through the corresponding blocks or thimbles as a fair leader.
A broad plait formed by an assemblage of ropes, woven and fitted with thimbles and laniards, used to steady the boats upon the deck of a ship at sea.
Also, a line with thimbles as fair-leaders for running rigging.
These two retardation coils have to do with the busy test, the action of which is as follows: normally, or when a line is not switched at the central office, the test thimbles will all be at substantially ground potential, i.
The test is dependent on the presence or absence of a path to ground from the test thimbles through some retardation coil associated with a cord circuit.
When, however, a plug is inserted into a multiple or answering jack, the test thimbles of that line are connected to ground through the retardation coil associated with the third strand of the plug used in making the connection.
The test thimbles of all the jacks of a busy line must be at a different potential from the tip of the test plug so that a current will flow and a click result when the test is made.
Presently I came to where the man of the thimbles was standing, with the table before him, and many people about him.
Items in the collection which were used in the mending of clothes include needles, pins, and thimbles (both brass and silver).
When the bill was brought him, it was so long and so tremendous that Bartlemy sprang up in a rage, crying out: "Thimbles and thread!
His bell-button thimbles fell off, his flat nose became long and sharp, his thread hair gave place to a bald pate, and his whole appearance became wonderfully like Bartlemy's master.
Two thimbles should be used, one on each hand, and the best are old silver or gold ones, with all the roughness worn off, or ivory or vulcanite.
To the wires q r two other wires are soldered so as to project in an opposite direction, and dip into the thimbles l m.
G and F are two large tumblers containing diluted acid, in each of which is immersed a plate of zinc surrounded with copper; l m s t are four brass thimbles soldered to the zinc and copper of the batteries and filled with mercury.
Smoke pipes should enter the chimney horizontally, and the connection through the chimney wall to the flue should be made with fire clay or metal thimbles securely and tightly set in the masonry.
If the walls are furred, no wood should be within 12 inches of thimbles or any part of the smoke pipe.
Thimbles were put away and sewing bags laid upon the tables while the conversation did not wane.
There were thimbles of huge size and others with open ends, the same that sailors use.
A New York newspaper mentioned Frenchmen who “content themselves with sipping thimbles full of absinthe.
The reader should have known that the men do not use thimbles for the purpose of drinking, and that thimblefuls are what they sip.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thimbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
