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. |
Feeder (n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment |
Feeder (n.) One who furnishes incentives |
Feeder (n.) One who eats or feeds |
Feeder (n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter. |
Feeder (n.) A stream that flows into another body of water |
Feeder (n.) A branch railroad, stage line, or the like |
Feeder (n.) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein. |
Feeder (n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure |
Feeder (n.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. |
Feeder (n.) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed. |
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. |
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 |
bottom-feeder bottom-dweller | a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water |
bottom-feeder | a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain |
feeder | an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening |
feeder | an animal that feeds on a particular source of food, a bark feeder, a mud feeder |
dragonfly darning needle devil's darning needle sewing needle snake feeder snake doctor mosquito hawk skeeter hawk | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
Allen screw | a screw with a hexagonal hole in the head |
auger gimlet screw auger wimble | hand tool for boring holes |
bird feeder birdfeeder feeder | an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds |
cap screw | a threaded screw for machine parts, screws into a tapped hole |
corkscrew bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
feeder line | a branching path off of a main transportation line (especially an airline) |
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 |
self-feeder feeder | a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material, the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
feeder tributary confluent affluent | a branch that flows into the main stream |
bottom feeder | an opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others |
eater feeder | someone who consumes food for nourishment |
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 |
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 |
sleep together roll in the hay love make out make love sleep with get laid have sex know do it be intimate have intercourse have it away have it off screw fuck jazz eff hump lie with bed have a go at it bang get it on bonk ff,uff | have sexual intercourse with, This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm, Adam knew Eve, Were you ever intimate with this man? |
botch bodge bumble fumble botch up muff blow flub screw up ball up spoil muck up bungle fluff bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up bobble mishandle louse up foul up mess up fuck up eddbbba | make a mess of, destroy or ruin, I botched the dinner and we had to eat out, the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement |
screw-loose screwy | not behaving normally |
screw-topped | having a lid with a spiral groove |