thumbscrews's Usage Examples:

The band"s name was derived from combining the words thumbscrews and hemlock.

The top, when horizontal, was held in place by brass thumbscrews fixed to the pedestal block.

It has a sliding clip in place of the thumbscrews normally found on a D-connector to hold two connectors together.

adjustable thumbscrews fasten the clamp holder to the attachments and lock it in place.

Competitors including jars with stoppers, spring wires, wire bails, cantilevered wires, and thumbscrews all proved less successful.

of two triangular metal plates connected at their corners by leveling thumbscrews, a bubble level, a locking mechanism and often an optical plummet.

Ringleaders caught at these banned meetings would face the boot, or thumbscrews, or worse during the period known as The Killing Time.

further you get, the more the game tightens the thumbscrews and does its upmost to drive you to the nearest loony bin.

These moveable parts can be adjusted using a leadscrew (usually turned with a thumb wheel), or have them slide freely along the guide rails and then fastened to desirable positions with set screws or thumbscrews.

The poorest faced starvation and, if they crossed the jailers, torture with skullcaps and thumbscrews.

a single pin missing from the bottom row, in a D-shaped shell, with thumbscrews.

clamps of various types and iron rings, can be attached to the rod by thumbscrews, at whatever heights and orientations are necessary to support the target.

as colloquialisms for instruments of torture, where silver bells were thumbscrews used to crush the thumb between two hard surfaces and cockle shells were.

Synonyms:

screw,

Antonyms:

unscrew,