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Hub :: Hub (n.) A screw hob. See Hob, 3..

Corkscrew :: Corkscrew (n.) An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.

Watch :: Watch (n.) That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch..

Countersink :: Countersink (v. t.) 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..

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

Crewelwork :: Crewelwork (n.) Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen..

Screw :: Screw (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.

Strombus :: Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.

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..

Decrew :: Decrew (v. i.) To decrease.

Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.

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..

Mesquit :: Mesquit (n.) A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite..

Serang :: Serang (n.) The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3..

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

Vane :: Vane (n.) Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc..

Company :: Company (n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company..

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 Screw :: Water screw () A screw propeller.

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