Pairs of #4-40 UNC thumbscrews are used to fasten certain connectors to hardware ports. Round headrests that attach to seat backs via thumbscrews and brackets. The poorest faced starvation and, if they crossed the jailers, torture with skullcaps and thumbscrews. One method to torture bounty jumpers was by use of thumbscrews. A Penco A22M may or may not have an adjustable saddle via thumbscrews. Artemisia was tortured with thumbscrews at the trial, with the intention of verifying her testimony. The band's name was derived from combining the words thumbscrews and hemlock. He placed the young girl's hands in thumbscrews, also called "pinniewinkles", pulverising the child's fingers. Mealing observed that Charlie "puts the moral thumbscrews on Rita".