Bed screw
() A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. |
Bed screw
() A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces. |
Breech screw
() A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore. |
Cover
(v. t.) To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another |
Cover
(v. t.) To envelop |
Cover
(v. t.) To invest (one's self with something) |
Cover
(v. t.) To hide sight |
Cover
(v. t.) To brood or sit on |
Cover
(v. t.) To shelter, as from evil or danger |
Cover
(v. t.) To remove from remembrance |
Cover
(v. t.) To extend over |
Cover
(v. t.) To put the usual covering or headdress on. |
Cover
(v. t.) To copulate with (a female) |
Cover
(n.) Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing |
Cover
(n.) Anything which veils or conceals |
Cover
(n.) Shelter |
Cover
(n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game |
Cover
(n.) The lap of a slide valve. |
Cover
(n.) A tablecloth, and the other table furniture |
Cover
(v. i.) To spread a table for a meal |
Cover-point
(n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." |
Cover-shame
(n.) Something used to conceal infamy. |
Hindleys screw
() 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. |
Screw
(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 |
Screw
(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 |
Screw
(n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw |
Screw
(n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels |
Screw
(n.) An extortioner |
Screw
(n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity |
Screw
(n.) A small packet of tobacco. |
Screw
(n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. |
Screw
(n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis. |
Screw
(n.) An amphipod crustacean |
Screw
(v. t.) To turn, as a screw |
Screw
(v. t.) To force |
Screw
(v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon |
Screw
(v. t.) To twist |
Screw
(v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student |
Screw
(v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions |
Screw
(v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion |
Screw-cutting
(a.) Adapted for forming a screw by cutting |
Screw-driver
(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. |
Water screw
() A screw propeller. |
| air cover | the use of military aircraft to provide protection against attack by enemy aircraft during ground or naval operations |
c fuck
fucking
screw
screwing
ass
nooky
nookie
piece of ass
piece of tail
roll in the hay
shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
| cover covering fire | fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations, artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal |
cover
covering screening
masking | the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it, the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft |
| cover | a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent), her new name and passport are cover for her next assignment |
| cover-up | concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public |
| Allen screw | a screw with a hexagonal hole in the head |
auger
gimlet
screw auger
wimble | hand tool for boring holes |
bedspread
bedcover
bed cover
bed covering
counterpane
spread | decorative cover for a bed |
binding
book binding
cover back | the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book, the book had a leather binding |
blanket
cover | bedding that keeps a person warm in bed, he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep |
| cap screw | a threaded screw for machine parts, screws into a tapped hole |
corkscrew
bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
cover
cover version
cover song | a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else, they made a cover of a Beatles' song |
cover glass
cover slip | a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide |
| cover plate | covering consisting of a plate used to cover over or close in a chamber or receptacle |
| dust cover | a removable plastic protective covering for a piece of equipment |
| dust cover dust sheet | a large piece of cloth used to cover furniture that is not in use for a long period |
floor cover
floor covering | a covering for a floor |
jackscrew
screw jack | screw-operated jack |
lag screw
lag bolt | a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench |
lens cap
lens cover | cap used to keep lens free of dust when not in use |
| machine screw | a screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole, slotted head can be driven by a screwdriver |
| manhole cover | a flush iron cover for a manhole (as in a street) |
| mattress cover | bedclothes that provide a cover for a mattress |
| metal screw | screw made of metal |
patent log
screw log
taffrail log | a cigar-shaped log with rotary fins that measure the ship's speed |
| Phillips screw | a screw with a special head having crossed slots |
protective covering
protective cover
protection | a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury, they had no protection from the fallout, wax provided protection for the floors |
record sleeve
record cover | a sleeve for storing a phonograph record |
screen cover covert
concealment | a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something, a screen of trees afforded privacy, under cover of darkness, the brush provided a covert for game, the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background |
| screw | a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head |
| screw screw propeller | a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air |
| screw | a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole |
| screw eye | a woodscrew having its shank bent into a ring |
| screw key | a wrench for turning a screw |
screw thread
thread | the raised helical rib going around a screw |
| screw wrench | adjustable wrench that has one jaw that can be adjusted by turning a screw |
| top cover | covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container), he removed the top of the carton, he couldn't get the top off of the bottle, put the cover back on the kettle |
wing nut
wing-nut
wing screw
butterfly nut
thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
covering letter
cover letter | a letter sent along with other documents to provide additional information |
book jacket
dust cover
dust jacket
dust wrapper | a paper jacket for a book, a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed |
covering
natural covering
cover | a natural object that covers or envelops, under a covering of dust, the fox was flushed from its cover |
cover girl
pin-up
lovely | a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model |
prison guard
jailer
jailor
gaoler
screw
turnkey | someone who guards prisoners |
screw bean screwbean
tornillo
screwbean mesquite
Prosopis pubescens | shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods |
| screw bean | spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed |
screw augur
Spiranthes cernua | an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having tall erect densely flowered spiraling clusters of creamy white vanilla-scented flowers, widely distributed especially in low damp places of eastern and central North America |
Pandanaceae
family Pandanaceae
screw-pine family | family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus |
pandanus
screw pine | any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves |