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# thimble

«thimble» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small metal or plastic cap worn on the tip of your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a thimble, thimbles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thimble is a small metal or plastic cap worn on the tip of your finger to protect it when you push a needle through cloth while sewing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#m1)

2) A thimble is also a tiny amount, as in "a thimbleful". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In D and T and textiles lessons pupils use thimbles when hand-sewing. In stories and games, a thimble is a small treasure; in Monopoly it was a classic playing piece. In "Peter Pan", Wendy gives Peter a "thimble" when she means a kiss. Phrases: "a thimbleful of", "hunt the thimble" (an old party game).

### examples

- Wear a thimble so the needle doesn't hurt your finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#x1)
- Grandma's silver thimble is very old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#x2)
- I played as the thimble in Monopoly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#x3)
- In Peter Pan, a kiss is called a thimble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#x4)
- We played hunt the thimble at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#x5)
- The doll drank from a cup no bigger than a thimble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#x6)
- Add just a thimbleful of milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#x7)
- And tears dropped from her eyes on to her thimble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/#x8)

### note

Countable. Ending -ble like "bubble", "tumble". A thimbleful is a very small measure, not an exact unit.

### In the corpora

- [The Dodo presents the thimble with "We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble", and they all cheer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thimble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thimble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.