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Garrote :: Garrote (n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted..

Water Snail :: Water snail () The Archimedean screw.

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

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack..

Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative 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, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to

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

Screw-driver :: 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.

Archimedes :: Archimedes (n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical..

Drill Press :: Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw..

Blank :: Blank (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts..

Screw :: 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..

Chase :: Chase (v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread..

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..

Screw :: Screw (v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination..

Screw :: Screw (n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.

Corkscrew :: Corkscrew (v. t.) To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd..

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) The thread of a screw.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller..

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