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The thumbscrew is a torture instrument which was first used in early modern Europe. It is a simple vise, sometimes with protruding studs on the interior...7 KB (893 words) - 22:03, 2 May 2024
index arm with the vernier. The thumbscrew used to lock the index arm position is seen below the index arm while the thumbscrew used for fine adjustment...24 KB (3,035 words) - 05:39, 6 May 2024- Virginia Beach lecture Virginia Beach Public Library (1986) Turning the thumbscrew on the reader Book-of-the-month-club news (1987) "Ever et raw meat?"...4 KB (184 words) - 16:49, 13 February 2024
Jeweler’s Piercing Saw: The blade of the saw was released by undoing the thumbscrew adjacent to the handle. To start an interior cut, a hole was drilled...15 KB (1,679 words) - 08:49, 8 January 2024
inches (13 mm) distance from the bottom of the foot to the center of the thumbscrew; a high shank foot has a 1 inch (25 mm) distance; a slant shank foot...4 KB (551 words) - 01:23, 6 November 2023
Lord of Session on 16 November the same year. He introduced the use of the thumbscrew in Scotland. He was also Lord Chancellor of Scotland, 1684–1688. Drummond...10 KB (1,046 words) - 14:36, 11 July 2024
use a Fortin barometer, the level of mercury is set to zero by using the thumbscrew to make an ivory pointer (O in the diagram) just touch the surface of...43 KB (5,123 words) - 01:48, 27 July 2024
Back-pressured stoves simplify the pressurized design by eliminating the thumbscrew and the base needed for preheating, while still controlling the rate...15 KB (1,969 words) - 04:58, 29 May 2024
inspired by her campaign against sweated labour, Warp and Woof and The Thumbscrew. She also translated Edmond Rostand's Les deux pierrots. She was encouraged...8 KB (804 words) - 22:51, 1 September 2024- With Dalyell he was popularly supposed to have introduced torture by the thumbscrew, 'having seen it in Moscovia' (Lauder, Historical Notices of Scotch...10 KB (1,363 words) - 03:24, 16 September 2023
leeches to rid them of excess blood, and put suspects to the rack and the thumbscrew in the service of truth. They schooled themselves to feel no pity—to...45 KB (5,610 words) - 01:58, 7 September 2024
interfere with her contribution to the cause. She choose Tennyson's line: "The thumbscrew and the stake for the glory of the Lord." "Miss Maria Kimm, a Christian...12 KB (1,442 words) - 14:01, 14 September 2024
The Spanish tickle: Created in 2005 as a false rumor on Wikipedia. The Thumbscrew: Created in the 16th century. It was used for the persecution of Catholics...121 KB (15,039 words) - 12:03, 29 August 2024
against a spirit level mounted just above it. A release lever beside the thumbscrew allowed the entire assembly to be lifted off the mounts. Above the mounting...39 KB (5,700 words) - 15:11, 28 July 2024
and economic status of women, In the Workhouse has been classed with The Thumbscrew by Edith Lyttelton. The curtain speech made by its heroine Lily to her...35 KB (4,015 words) - 17:26, 23 June 2024
- Puritanism”, in Anarchism and Other Essays: Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings
- that civilized people cannot tolerate them - e. g., use of the rack, the thumbscrew, or other modes of torture. See O'Neil v. Vermont, 144 U.S., at 339
- pain, to be drawn and quartered, to disembowel, to flay, to press, the thumbscrew, the garrote, a slow burn, and the iron maiden (a hollow hinged statue