thumbscrew / ˈθʌmˌskru /

📖毕业后词汇拇指螺丝拇指螺丝钉拇指螺钉拇指螺丝刀

thumbscrew 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
  2. Often thumbscrews. an old instrument of torture by which one or both thumbs were compressed.

更多thumbscrew例句

  1. The DUO 24 dumps hook-and-loop fastening in favor of an adhesive plate system for affixing users’ pedals to the board’s surface using thumbscrews.
  2. An ordinary thumbscrew or eye can be used which, by a turn or two, will either release it or fasten it in place.
  3. It would be a trifle easier to face the rack and thumbscrew, eh?
  4. Is it the same Christian religion that founded the Inquisition and invented the thumbscrew?
  5. Sowles looked fully capable of loosing a full-fledged Inquisition, complete with rack and thumbscrew, at Cam's well-barbered head.
  6. Whereon the bloated tyrant sent his prætorians, and enforced payment by scourge and thumbscrew?