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Screw-cutting :: Screw-cutting (a.) Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe..

Threader :: Threader (n.) A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.

Screw :: Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.

Cup :: Cup (v. t.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw..

Screw :: Screw (n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor..

Bed Screw :: Bed screw () A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut..

Comb :: Comb (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser..

Worm :: Worm (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms..

Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes..

Screw :: Screw (n.) A small packet of tobacco.

Counterbore :: Counterbore (n.) A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head..

Tap :: Tap (n.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges..

Screw :: Screw (v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair..

Backlash :: Backlash (n.) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion..

Tourniquet :: Tourniquet (n.) An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.

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; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below..

Nut :: Nut (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt..

Race :: Race (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea..

Screw :: Screw (n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance..

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