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Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: --

A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

The chub mackerel. See under Chub.

As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. Dryden.

A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.

One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.

Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

The harebell.

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor. Knight.

d in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. -- Chub sucker (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.

A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail. (c.)

An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

abundance. [Obs.] Marlowe. -- Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served. -- Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related ge…

A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends. R. H. Dana, Ir.

The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idæus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red and the white raspberry.

To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.

A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle. Knight.

A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.

the sockets oily bubbles dance. Dryden. Socket bolt (Mach.), a bolt that passes through a thimble that is placed between the parts connected by the bolt. -- Socket chisel. Same as Framing chisel. See under Framing. -- Socket pipe, a pipe with an expansion at one end to receive the end of a connecting pipe. -- Socket…

c stay (Naut.), a rope secured at the ends to the heads of the foremast and mainmast with thimbles spliced to its bight into which the stay tackles hook.