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Definition of Thimblerigging
1. thimblerig [v] - See also: thimblerig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thimblerigging
Literary usage of Thimblerigging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Victorians: Memories and Personalities by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1916)
"... His views about the fourteenth Earl of Derby—Nineteenth- century types of
politics and play for the Upper Ten—Legislation or thimblerigging ? ..."
2. The Earl of Derby by George Saintsbury (1892)
"In a merciless criticism of the Government proposals on Irish Tithes, Mr.
Stanley compared them to thimblerigging, and suggested that in the end the Church ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"States, have often made possible precisely that evil of which the socialist
critics complain: mere thimblerigging and plundering. ..."
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