Thumbscrew

Definition

thumbscrew /'θʌmskru:/ n (esp formerly) (လက္မကို ညႇပ္၍ လက္သည္းခြံကို ႀကိတ္ခြဲၿပီး ႏိွပ္စက္ညႇဥ္းပန္းရန္) ဝက္အူရစ္။

Examples

1. ‘People who would normally abhor applying the thumbscrews earnestly debated whether the risks of further atrocities justified brutal treatment of suspected terrorists.’
2. ‘I bet the chancellor would like to have a thumbscrew handy.’
3. ‘No
4. U.S. attorneys did not use the thumbscrew or the rack
5. but they employed torture all the same.’
6. ‘Fans of the thumbscrew and the cat o’ nine tails will be dismayed to learn that the nanny state has also outlawed anything that breaks the skin.’
7. ‘I'm coming up a bit short this month and the credit card company says that they will have to resort to the thumbscrew and hot irons strategy if I don't cough up.’
8. ‘London is putting the thumbscrews on in a bid to try to get the party around the talks table and ultimately the executive table far quicker than it wants.’
9. ‘Ms. Peterson didn't say who had applied the thumbscrews.’
10. ‘The other mutineers
11. after torture with thumbscrews
12. were whipped and had ashes
13. salt and pepper rubbed into their wounds.’
14. ‘There were all these intricate diagrams of horrible shackles and thumbscrews.’
15. ‘Some US commentators are calling for latter-day racks and thumbscrews to jumpstart the stalled investigation into 11 September’
16. ‘In actual fact
17. the Hutchinsons were the side of the family that invented the thumbscrew
18. while we ourselves are a particularly gallant and honourable lot.’
19. ‘One is not bound to regard torture as only present in a mediaeval dungeon where the appliances of rack and thumbscrew or similar devices were employed.’
20. ‘Last week
21. I was predicting that Bush would get his resolution
22. but that there would be a lot of abstentions
23. and that no-one would bother to act on it unless he bought out the thumbscrews.’
24. ‘And it is the most incredibly dreadful and evil prolonged pain delivery device ever conceived by man since the thumbscrew or the fiction of L. Ron Hubbard.’
25. ‘For some reason they have also chosen to crank the thumbscrews with an added splash of vindictiveness.’
26. ‘As he was walking past a ship chandler's shop
27. he was shocked to see handcuffs
28. leg shackles
29. and thumbscrews in the window.’
30. ‘I would rather have thumbscrews than campylobacter again.’
31. ‘There are iron thumbscrews
32. head squeezers
33. stretching racks
34. and interrogation chairs with spikes
35. many of which were used during the Spanish Inquisition.’
36. ‘How do we stop from sliding down the slippery slope till we reach the oubliette where lurk the rack
37. the branding-iron
38. and the thumbscrew?’
39. ‘It is possible that the thumbscrew
40. the rack
41. or physical mutilation such as ear-cropping would not have been considered cruel by our forebears.’