Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ring worn on the thumb in archery.
- noun A ring designed to be worn upon the thumb: often a seal-ring, and in that case probably worn only occasionally, as when occupied in business.
- noun A ring fastened to the guard of a dagger or sword to receive the thumb.
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Examples
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Foz said ... pinky-thumb = hang loose thumb-ring = Howie Mandell
Or grotesque deformities. Jessica Hagy 2007
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Some aspect of our bodies is going to be transformed into a group of deities and the same thing will happen with an empowering implement, such as a crown, a bracelet, a thumb-ring, and so on.
Explanatory Talks at the Rikon Kalachakra Initiation 1985 ��� Day Three 1985
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My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagles talon in the waist; I could have crept into any aldermans thumb-ring.
Act II. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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He began to fumble at his doublet, and presently produced from an inner pocket a great thumb-ring with a ruby in it.
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Cardinal's robes and then had been very simply dressed -- that it was he whose back I had seen, and whose dazzling thumb-ring had blinded me in the garden near the Filles Dieu.
In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891
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Later on in the _Apology_ he returns to this grievance, and describes how his adversary "sobs me out half a dozen phthisical mottoes, wherever he had them, hopping short in the measure of convulsion fits; in which labour the agony of his wit having escaped narrowly, instead of well-sized periods, he greets us with a quantity of thumb-ring posies."
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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The Laird of Supsorrow in his coat of blue and silver, his buff waistcoat and corded moleskin small clothes, his silver buckles and broad silver thumb-ring, his gold snuff-mull and the cowries clashing at his fob, was considered the type of the real Scottish countryman.
Patsy 1887
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It is nothing more nor less than a very ancient thumb-ring, such as once in my father's time was ploughed up out of the ground in our farm, and sent to learned doctors, who told us all about it, but kept the ring for their trouble.
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The Londesborough collection supplies us with a thumb-ring (Fig. 141), having two cockatrices cut in high relief upon an agate.
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The right hand carries only a thumb-ring, and two upon the third finger.
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