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Crick :: Crick (n.) A small jackscrew.

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..

Screwer :: Screwer (n.) One who, or that which, screws..

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..

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

Archimedean :: Archimedean (a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc..

Thumbkin :: Thumbkin (n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

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

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

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

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

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

Captain :: Captain (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team..

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..

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..

Protest :: Protest (v.) A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may be, and protesting against them..

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

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

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

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

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