Definitions
feel or handle with the fingers
Word origin
Derived from Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe (“thumb”), from Old English þūma (“thumb”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō (“thumb”), from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (“thumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
Used in a sentence
“a scroll-bar thumb”
“to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon”
“thumb through”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Opposable digit”5 letters
02“Hand digit”5 letters
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