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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who practises the trick of thimblerig; a low trickster or sharper. Also thimbleman.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.

Etymologies

  1. thimblerig +‎ -er (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “There is a tide in the affairs of men when you simply have to chuck it - as, for example, when you learn that the wife of your unsuspecting bosom is a practised thimblerigger who has used her flash arts to ruin an innocent man.”

    Fictionaut: Watershed

  • “If in the ordinary category of skittle sharper or thimblerigger," with a suspicion of mild scorn, "then I do not imagine your ladyship would find much attraction in the present cargo.”

    Half A Chance

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