"thumbikins" meaning in English

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          "text": "[S]end me that hag hither; she shall avouch what it was that she hath given to the wretch Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger-joints.",
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        "An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbkin or thumbscrew."
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          "compressing",
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          "thumb",
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          "thumbkin",
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