Thumb Piece

The magazine can be cut off and the rifle used as a single loader by pushing forward a thumb-piece on the right side of the shoe. ❋ Various (N/A)

By 1714, the thumb-piece on English serving pots had disappeared, and the handle was no longer set at a right angle to the spout. ❋ Unknown (1909)

In 1692, the lantern straight-line coffee serving pot with true cone lid, thumb-piece, and handle fixed at right angle to the spout, was introduced into England, succeeding the curved oriental serving pot. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The 1692 coffee pot of lantern shape is the property of H.D. Ellis, and has its spout curved upward at the top, being furnished with a small, hinged flap and a scroll-shaped thumb-piece attached to the rim of the cover. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The thumb-piece, which is a familiar feature upon the tankards of the period. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Not considering this, however, he stood his ground, having the thumb-piece on his Winchester magazine shoved up and ready to make a noisy diversion if necessary in behalf of either wing. ❋ Unknown (1894)

This was even more compactly fixed than the other; but the thumb-piece was projecting, and Fred began on this with his foot, kicking it upward with his toe, and stamping it down again, till it gradually loosened, and, after a little more working, shot back with ease. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

1714 -- The thumb-piece on English coffee pots disappears, and the handle is no longer set at a right angle to the spout. ❋ Unknown (1909)

1692 -- The "lantern" straight-line coffee pot with true cone lid, thumb-piece, and handle fixed at right angle to the spout, is introduced into England, succeeding the curved Oriental serving pot. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Willie having responded to this inquiry, was next asked if the murners were to have glooes (gloves) or mittens, the former being articles with fingers, the latter having only a thumb-piece; and Willie, having also answered this question, was allowed to depart in peace.” ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

"Mélie and I had a morsel also, just a thumb-piece, a mere nothing, for our heart was not in it. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)