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Screwing :: Screwing () a. & n. from Screw, v. t..

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

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

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..

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

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it..

Screw :: Screw (v. t.) To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press..

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

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..

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

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..

Well :: Well (v. i.) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.

Propeller :: Propeller (n.) A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.

Cockswain :: Cockswain (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

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

Bargemastter :: Bargemastter (n.) The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge..

Diestock :: Diestock (n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

Blade :: Blade (n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller..

Doublethreaded :: Doublethreaded (a.) Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

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