| 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 |
| Phillips screw a screw with a special head having crossed slots |
| Phillips screwdriver a screwdriver for use with Phillips screws |
| Feynman / Richard Feynman / Richard Phillips Feynman United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (-) |