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. |
Shoulder (n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle |
Shoulder (n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint |
Shoulder (n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains |
Shoulder (n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing. |
Shoulder (n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market |
Shoulder (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion. |
Shoulder (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc. |
Shoulder (v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder |
Shoulder (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders |
Shoulder-shotten (a.) Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. |
Water screw () A screw propeller. |
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 |
over-the-shoulder bombing | a special case of loft bombing in which the bomb is released past the vertical so it is tossed back to the target |
snub cut cold shoulder | a refusal to recognize someone you know, the snub was clearly intentional |
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 |
hard shoulder | a paved strip beside a motorway (for stopping in emergencies) |
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 |
shoulder berm | a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road, the car pulled off onto the shoulder |
shoulder | the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder, an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform |
shoulder bag | a large handbag that can be carried by a strap looped over the shoulder |
shoulder board shoulder mark | epaulets that indicate rank |
shoulder holster | a holster worn over your shoulder so a gun can be concealed under your jacket |
shoulder pad | protective garment consisting of a hard rounded pad worn by football players to protect their shoulders |
shoulder patch | patch worn on the shoulder of a military uniform to indicate rank |
strap shoulder strap | a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
wood vise woodworking vise shoulder vise | a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it |
scapula shoulder blade shoulder bone | either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings |
shoulder | the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm |
shoulder shoulder joint articulatio humeri | a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula |
shoulder girdle pectoral arch | the bony arch formed by the collarbones and shoulder blades in humans |
shoulder flash | something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc. |
shoulder | a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg |
picnic ham picnic shoulder | shoulder of a hog usually smoked |
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 |
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 |
slight cold-shoulder | pay no attention to, disrespect, She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance |