THUMBNAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thumbnail mean? 

• THUMBNAIL (noun)
  The noun THUMBNAIL has 1 sense:

1. the nail of the thumb

  Familiarity information: THUMBNAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THUMBNAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The nail of the thumb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("thumbnail" is a kind of...):

fingernail (the nail at the end of a finger)

Holonyms ("thumbnail" is a part of...):

pollex; thumb (the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb)

 Context examples 

Here come two hundred as tight lads as ever twirled a shaft over their thumbnails.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)