Anagrams of: THUMBPIECES

• intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

• reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring

• The top of a ridge.

• The spine of an animal.

• A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

• A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.

• A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.

• The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

• The back of the blade on a scythe.

• a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of