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. |
Bolt
(n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow |
Bolt
(n.) Lightning |
Bolt
(n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end. |
Bolt
(n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate |
Bolt
(n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner |
Bolt
(n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. |
Bolt
(n.) A bundle, as of oziers. |
Bolt
(v. t.) To shoot |
Bolt
(v. t.) To utter precipitately |
Bolt
(v. t.) To swallow without chewing |
Bolt
(v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part. |
Bolt
(v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth |
Bolt
(v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters |
Bolt
(v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow |
Bolt
(v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. |
Bolt
(v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path |
Bolt
(v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected |
Bolt
(adv.) In the manner of a bolt |
Bolt
(v. i.) A sudden spring or start |
Bolt
(v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. |
Bolt
(v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected |
Bolt
(v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter |
Bolt
(v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting |
Bolt
(v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. |
Bolt
(n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal |
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. |
Clamp
(n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together |
Clamp
(n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. |
Clamp
(n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen. |
Clamp
(n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising. |
Clamp
(n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams. |
Clamp
(n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned |
Clamp
(n.) A mollusk. See Clam. |
Clamping
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clamp |
Clamp
(v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps |
Clamp
(v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth. |
Clamp
(n.) A heavy footstep |
Clamp
(v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily |
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. |
| bolt | a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) |
| dash bolt | the act of moving with great haste, he made a dash for the door |
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 |
| Allen screw | a screw with a hexagonal hole in the head |
auger
gimlet
screw auger
wimble | hand tool for boring holes |
| bench clamp | a clamp used to hold work in place on a workbench |
| bolt | a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener |
| bolt deadbolt | the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key |
| bolt | a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech |
| bolt | a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length |
| bolt cutter | an implement for cutting bolts |
| cap screw | a threaded screw for machine parts, screws into a tapped hole |
| carriage bolt | a roundheaded bolt for timber, threaded along part of the shank, inserted into holes already drilled |
| Clamp | a clamp in the shape of the letter C |
clamp
clinch | a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together |
corkscrew
bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
| expansion bolt | a bolt that has an attachment that expands as the bolt is driven into a surface |
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 |
| machine bolt | a bolt with a square or hexagonal head on one end and a threaded shaft on the other end, tightened with a wrench, used to connect metal parts |
| machine screw | a screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole, slotted head can be driven by a screwdriver |
| metal screw | screw made of metal |
| nut and bolt | a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt |
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 |
pipe vise
pipe clamp | a clamp for holding pipe that is to be cut or threaded |
safety bolt
safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
| 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 |
| stove bolt | a small machine bolt |
| toggle bolt | a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle, used to fasten objects to hollow walls |
wing nut
wing-nut
wing screw
butterfly nut
thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
| nuts and bolts | detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished |
| bolt-hole | a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den |
prison guard
jailer
jailor
gaoler
screw
turnkey | someone who guards prisoners |
thunderbolt
bolt
bolt of lightning | a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder |
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 |
textile screw pine
lauhala
Pandanus tectorius | Polynesian screw pine |
| screw tree | a tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres |
nut-leaved screw tree
Helicteres isora | East Indian shrub often cultivated for its hairy leaves and orangeed flowers |
| screw up | twist into a strained configuration, screw up one's face |