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

Beakhead :: Beakhead (n.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew..

Reptile :: Reptile (a.) Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices..

Coach :: Coach (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.

Mill :: Mill (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin..

Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger..

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..

Thread :: Thread (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut..

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

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..

Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..

Bargeman :: Bargeman (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge..

Screw :: Screw (n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below..

Helix :: Helix (n.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally 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..

Surculate :: Surcrew (n.) Increase; addition; surplus.

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

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

Screw :: Screw (n.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand..

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

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc..

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