Air drill
() A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air |
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. |
Drill
(v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill |
Drill
(v. t.) To train in the military art |
Drill
(v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises |
Drill
(n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances |
Drill
(n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like |
Drill
(n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition |
Drill
(n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. |
Drill
(v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling |
Drill
(v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
Drill
(v. t.) To entice |
Drill
(v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
Drill
(v. i.) To trickle. |
Drill
(v. i.) To sow in drills. |
Drill
(n.) A small trickling stream |
Drill
(n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
Drill
(n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
Drill
(n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
Drill
(n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
Drill
(n.) Same as Drilling. |
Drill press
() A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw. |
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. |