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. |
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. |
Spindle (n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound |
Spindle (n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns |
Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc. |
Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. |
Spindle (n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed. |
Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch. |
Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle. |
Spindle (n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards |
Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord. |
Spindle (n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria |
Spindle (n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus. |
Spindle (v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body |
Spindle-legged (a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shanked (a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a spindle. |
Spindle-shaped (a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends |
Water screw () A screw propeller. |
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forest goat spindle horn Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
Allen screw | a screw with a hexagonal hole in the head |
auger gimlet screw auger wimble | hand tool for boring holes |
cap screw | a threaded screw for machine parts, screws into a tapped hole |
corkscrew bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
spike spindle | any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object, the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order |
spindle | a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning |
spindle mandrel mandril arbor | any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts |
spindle | a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe, used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
spindle | (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division, the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle, chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis |
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 |
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 |
Celastraceae family Celastraceae spindle-tree family staff-tree family | trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having brightolored fruits |
spindle tree spindleberry spindleberry tree | any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries |
common spindle tree Euonymus europaeus | small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit |
winged spindle tree Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
screw up | twist into a strained configuration, screw up one's face |
heat up hot up screw up | make more intense, Emotions were screwed up |
cheat chouse shaft screw chicane jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
screw | tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions, Screw the bottle cap on |
screw drive in | cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion, drive in screws or bolts |
screw | turn like a screw |
screw up | screw or turn higher |
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spindle-legged spindle-shanked | having long slender legs |
fusiform spindle-shaped cigar-shaped | tapering at each end |
screw-loose screwy | not behaving normally |