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. |
Butting joint () A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts |
Butt joint () A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8. |
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. |
Hooke's joint () A universal joint. See under Universal. |
Joint (n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united |
Joint (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion |
Joint (n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations |
Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. |
Joint (n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. |
Joint (n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc. |
Joint (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. |
Joint (a.) Joined |
Joint (a.) Involving the united activity of two or more |
Joint (a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others |
Joint (a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more |
Joint (v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints |
Joint (v. t.) To join |
Joint (v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints |
Joint (v. t.) To separate the joints |
Joint (v. i.) To fit as if by joints |
Joint-fir (n.) A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed |
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. |
Straight-joint (a.) Having straight joints. |
Straight-joint (a.) Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. |
Straight-joint (a.) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge. |
Water joint () A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints. |
Water screw () A screw propeller. |