1. Thumbscrews, formerly employed in Scotland to extort confession.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• thompkins,
• rhumbkins,
• fhumbkins,
• ghumbkins,
• yhumbkins,
• 6humbkins,
• 5humbkins,
• tgumbkins,
• tbumbkins,
• tnumbkins,
• tjumbkins,
• tuumbkins,
• thumkins,
• thumbkyns,
• Thumpkins,
• Thumpkyns,
• Thumkyns,
• Thumbqins,
• Thumpqins,
• Thumqins