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What is a thimble?

What is a thimble? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (sewing) A pitted, now usually metal, cap for the fingers, used in sewing to push the needle.
  2. A similarly shaped socket in machinery.
  3. A thimbleful.
  4. (nautical) A ring of metal or rope used in a ship's rigging; it is a protection against chafing.
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Sarah was married to the very silversmith who had engraven our names on the thimble!
The tip of the second finger curls in toward the ball of the thumb until it is under the mouth of the thimble.
Then she would don a thimble, put a dint in the cookie, and fill it with jam.
Of course since I was stitching after so long I drew blood and then I realized that I had forgotten all about the thimble once again.
Mary was sitting on the bed, tapping her foot and humming a tune as she set her needles, thimble, and thread into a sack.
I used a large thimble for the flap cord part, nylon cord for the line, and ended up just tying the cord around the side wire with a slip knot.

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