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A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form.
A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.
A screw propeller.
a. & n. from Screw, v. t.
A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.
SCREW
imp. & p. p.
of Screw
n.
One who, or that which, screws.
a.
Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
n.
Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.
v. t.
To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Screw
n.
A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
v. t.
To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
n.
A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
n.
Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.
n.
An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
n.
A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.
v. i.
To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
v. t.
To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.
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