Talk:Ball of the thumb
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[edit]Webster's Collegiate uses the term as a synonym for thenar eminence as if it had only one construction, but I think this is a pretty clear instance of the term with the thumb-tip sense:
- ... the blood ... welled up into a perfect sphere, balanced precariously on the ball of my thumb.... I stuck my thumb into my mouth.
(First three sentences of Chap. One of A Fugitive Truth - An Emma Fielding Mystery, 2004, HarperCollins Canada by Dana Cameron)
--Jerzy•t 15:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)