Usually means: Instrument for torture by compression.
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  1. Thumbkin, thumbkin: Wordnik
  2. thumbkin: Wiktionary
  3. thumbkin: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. Thumbkin, thumbkin: Dictionary.com
  5. Thumbkin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. thumbkin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Thumbkin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. thumbkin: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Thumbkin: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. thumbkin: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (thumbkin)

noun:  (historical) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
noun:  (rare, childish) The thumb.

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