What is "thimbles"

Usage examples of "thimbles".

Doc only wore metal thimbles upon his finger tips, in each of which was a needle containing a drug which put a man to sleep instantly.

He dropped a hand into a pocket, brought it out with the needle-containing metal thimbles affixed to the finger tips.

Doc exhibited one of the finger-tip thimbles containing the drug-laden needles - thimbles which produced long-lasting unconsciousness.

Then they took from their deep pockets long wooden thimbles, which they placed over their fingers and thumbs.

Ordering them to lay the chest on the ground, Questor Ro covered his fingertips with wooden thimbles and took up a length of golden wire.

When the six Vagars carried it to the site he handed the box to the first then, placing the wooden thimbles over his fingers and thumbs, removed the gold wires from the second chest, applying them to the third.

The Vagars, their fingers once more protected by the wooden thimbles, righted the chest.

Laney and the others wore pale green latex gloves with orange Kevlar thimbles on the tips that gave you heat rash.

I might as well simply admit I am sending you all out with thimbles and forks and hope.