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Home Dictionary Name: screwScrew
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 the latter as the internal or female screw or more usually the nut...
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 cutting
Adapted for forming a screw by cutting as a screw cutting lathe...
Screw driver
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...
Bed screw
A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies and assisting in launching...
Binding screw
A set screw used to bind parts together esp one for making a connection in an electrical circuit...
machine screw
A type of screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole it has a slotted head which can be driven by a screwdriver...
Screwing
a amp n from Screw v t...
Countersink
To chamfer or form a depression around the top of a hole in wood metal etc for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface either wholly or in part as to countersink a hole for a screw...
Breech pin
A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm to close the bottom of the bore...
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