Thumbscrew is valid Scrabble Word

Is thumbscrew a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is thumbscrew valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
22 points in Scrabble
25 points in WWF

Definitions for THUMBSCREW in dictionary:

NOUN:

an instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw
an instrument of torture for crushing the thumbs.
a screw with a protruding winged or flattened head for turning with the thumb and forefinger.
A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.
An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.
instrument of torture that crushes the thumb
screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers

Words related to THUMBSCREW

thumbkins20 thumbscrews23

Words that contain THUMBSCREW

thumbscrews23

How to use THUMBSCREW in a sentence

The fourth division consisted of the thumb-screw, speculum oris, and chains and shackles of different kinds, collected at Liverpool.
Only an official of the Inquisition could turn the thumb-screw so many times, and so remorselessly.
The adjustment of the anvils about the shaft may be changed in a moment by the simple movement of loosening and tightening the thumb-screw constituted by the anvil and its bolt.
The latter is provided with a thumb-screw, to fasten it at any point.
It is attached, by a stout thumb-screw, to the axis of the left trunnion, around which it revolves when the screw is slack.
He scorned the rack and thumbscrew, declaring they could not reach his soul.
A thumb-screw or a rack would have been a pleasant relief.
I am only wondering if, in the extracting of testimony from the common mind, the thumbscrew might not have been more necessary with some nations than with others.
The indicator is adjustable by means of a thumb-screw at the base and is set at zero before the load is applied.
It was as white and drawn as if he had been tortured by the rack and thumbscrew, so he made no answer for the moment.

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