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Pandanus
A genus of endogenous plants native to tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia See Screw pine
Pandanaceae
A natural family of woody plants including the pandanus tree the screw pine and freycinetia
Mesquite
having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar rich pods especially the honey mesquite and screw pod mesquite
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Machine
motions are constrained and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified as a screw and its nut or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot
Lock washer
not completely smooth or flat designed to prevent a nut from loosening placed under the nut on a screw or bolt
Levorotation
Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right handed screw counter clockwise rotation applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light
Helix
inclined to a given plane The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw It is distinguished from the spiral all the convolutions of which are in the plane
Jackscrew
A jack in which a screw is used for lifting or exerting pressure See Illust of 2d Jack n 5
Gimlet
A small tool for boring holes It has a leading screw a grooved body and a cross handle
Garrote
Spanish mode of execution by strangulation with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct
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