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Thumbscrew

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers

polysemousWordset Dictionary

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

instrument of torture that crushes the thumb

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Thumbscrews
possessive: Thumbscrew's
pluralpossessive: Thumbscrews'

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