Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > thimble
thimble
A ring, pear-shaped or circular, with a groove outside for ropes to fit in. When the thimble is pear-shaped it is usually termed a "heart thimble or thimble heart." These thimbles are used for the eye splices in ropes, whilst circular thimbles are mostly used for the cringles of sails. For steel wire shrouds the thimble is usually solid.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Sailing
- Category: General sailing
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Dairy products Category: Ice cream
Schweddy Balls
Schweddy Balls is a new flavour of ice cream, produced by American ice cream company Ben & Jerry's. The flavour is derived from a ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
stanley soerianto
0
Terms
107
Blossaries
6
Followers
Highest Paid Badminton Players
Category: Sports 2 10 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Lumber(635)
- Concrete(329)
- Stone(231)
- Wood flooring(155)
- Tiles(153)
- Bricks(40)
Building materials(1584) Terms
- Muscular(158)
- Brain(145)
- Human body(144)
- Developmental anatomy(72)
- Nervous system(57)
- Arteries(53)
Anatomy(873) Terms
- Project management(431)
- Mergers & acquisitions(316)
- Human resources(287)
- Relocation(217)
- Marketing(207)
- Event planning(177)
Business services(2022) Terms
- Journalism(537)
- Newspaper(79)
- Investigative journalism(44)
News service(660) Terms
- Biochemistry(4818)
- Genetic engineering(2618)
- Biomedical(4)
- Green biotechnology(4)
- Blue biotechnology(1)