Thimble

(noun.) a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container.

(noun.) as much as a thimble will hold.

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• Her thimble is scarcely fitted on, her needle scarce threaded, when a sudden thought calls her upstairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To keep it nice, child; people must take care of their things, if they ever mean to have anything; and now, Eva, is your thimble put up? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The boring bit is a steel thimble about four inches in length, having two rows of Brazilian black diamonds firmly embedded therein, the edges projecting slightly. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She left her sewing and her thimble in the window-seat, and followed her uncle where he led. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Well, never mind; I'll look your box over,--thimble, wax, two spools, scissors, knife, tape-needle; all right,--put it in here. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• A brass thimble, said Mr Carriston, making a discovery, a copper, and three blue beads. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She gathered up her work, put the embroidery, the scissors, the thimble into her bag. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There was no magnet, simply a diaphragm and a cylinder of compressed chalk about the size of a thimble. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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