thumbscrew

/thuhm-skroo/US // ˈθʌmˌskru //UK // (ˈθʌmˌskruː) //

拇指螺丝,拇指螺丝钉,拇指螺钉,拇指螺丝刀

Definitions

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.
- : Often thumbscrews. an old instrument of torture by which one or both thumbs were compressed.

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.
An ordinary thumbscrew or eye can be used which, by a turn or two, will either release it or fasten it in place.
It would be a trifle easier to face the rack and thumbscrew, eh?
Is it the same Christian religion that founded the Inquisition and invented the thumbscrew?
Sowles looked fully capable of loosing a full-fledged Inquisition, complete with rack and thumbscrew, at Cam's well-barbered head.
Whereon the bloated tyrant sent his prætorians, and enforced payment by scourge and thumbscrew?