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. |
Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin |
Botch (n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. |
Botch (n.) Work done in a bungling manner |
Botch (n.) To mark with, or as with, botches. |
Botch (n.) To repair |
Botch (n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully |
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. |
Mess (n.) Mass |
Mess (n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time |
Mess (n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common |
Mess (n.) A set of four |
Mess (n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking. |
Mess (n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things |
Mess (v. i.) To take meals with a mess |
Mess (v. t.) To supply with a mess. |
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. |
b blunder blooper bloomer bungle pratfall foul-up fuckup flub botch boner boo-boo d | an embarrassing mistake |
ballup balls-up cockup mess-up a | something badly botched or muddled |
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 |
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 |
mess mess hall | a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax |
mess jacket monkey jacket shell jacket | waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back, worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners |
mess kit | kit containing a metal dish and eating utensils, used by soldiers and campers |
metal screw | screw made of metal |
officer's mess | a mess for the exclusive use of officers |
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 |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
mess | a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel |
mess | soft semiliquid food, a mess of porridge |
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 |
things | any movable possession (especially articles of clothing), she packed her things and left |
mess of pottage | anything of trivial value, Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage |
b batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful heap lot mass mess mickle mint mountain muckle passel peck pile plenty pot quite a little raft sight slew spate stack tidy sum wad v b a | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent, a batch of letters, a deal of trouble, a lot of money, he made a mint on the stock market, see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos, it must have cost plenty, a slew of journalists, a wad of money |
fix hole jam mess muddle pickle kettle of fish | informal terms for a difficult situation, he got into a terrible fix, he made a muddle of his marriage |
mess messiness muss mussiness | a state of confusion and disorderliness, the house was a mess, she smoothed the mussiness of the bed |
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 |
mess mess up | make a mess of or create disorder in, He messed up his room |
cheat chouse shaft screw chicane jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
mess | eat in a mess hall |
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 |