Barrel
(n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. |
Barrel
(n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons |
Barrel
(n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case |
Barrel
(n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. |
Barrel
(n.) A jar. |
Barrel
(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather. |
Barrel
(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels. |
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. |
Double-lock
(v. t.) To lock with two bolts |
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. |
Lock
(n.) A tuft of hair |
Lock
(n.) Anything that fastens |
Lock
(n.) A fastening together or interlacing |
Lock
(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. |
Lock
(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. |
Lock
(n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another |
Lock
(n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded |
Lock
(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning. |
Lock
(n.) A grapple in wrestling. |
Lock
(v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock |
Lock
(v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of |
Lock
(v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks |
Lock
(v. t.) To link together |
Lock
(v. t.) To furnish with locks |
Lock
(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. |
Lock
(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing |
Lock-down
(n.) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting |
Lock hospital
() A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. |
Lock step
() A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. |
Lock stitch
() A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch. |
Lock-weir
(n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. |
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 |