Thimbled

a. [f. THIMBLE + -ED².] Having, or furnished with, a thimble; in thieves’ slang, wearing a watch.

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1796. Coleridge, Poems, Ep., V. 33.

	And hence the thimbled Finger of grave Pallas
	To th’ erring Needle’s point was more than callous.

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1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Thimbled, having or wearing a watch.

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1851. Hawthorne, Snow Image (1879), 21. With her thimbled finger.

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1884. Pall Mall G., 10 Dec., 3/2. Long before either Dutch or English thought of thimbles Chinese ladies were thimbled when they worked at their embroidery.

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