tangent-screw

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• Tangent

  ·adj Touching; touching at a single point. II. Tangent ·adj meeting a curve or surface at a point a...

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• tangent

  A right line raised perpendicularly on the extremity of a radius, touching the circle without cuttin...

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• Screw

  ·noun A small packet of tobacco. II. Screw ·noun An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a ...

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• screw

  A skeleton key used by housebreakers to open a lock. To stand on the screw signifies that a door is ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• screw

  1) One who squeezes all he can out of those with whom he has any dealings; an extortioner; miser. Co...

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• Tangent spoke

  ·add. ·- A tension spoke of a bicycle or similar wheel, secured tangentially to the hub. ...

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• Tangent wheel

  ·add. ·- A wheel with tangent spokes. II. Tangent wheel ·add. ·- A worm or worm wheel; a tangent sc...

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• limb-tangent

  The accurate touch of the edge of a celestial body to the horizon. ...

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• tangent-scale

  Fitted to the breech of a gun for admeasuring its elevation; it is a sliding pillar marked with degr...

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• Bed screw

  ·- A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. II. Bed screw ·- A lo...

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• Binding screw

  ·add. ·- A set screw used to bind parts together, ·esp. one for making a connection in an electrical...

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• Breech screw

  ·- A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bo...

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• Hindleys screw

  ·- A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which t...

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• Screw-cutting

  ·adj Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe. ...

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• Screw-driver

  ·noun A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters...

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• Temper screw

  ·add. ·- A set screw used for adjusting. II. Temper screw ·add. ·- A screw link, to which is attach...

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• Tractor screw

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Tractor propeller. ...

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• Water screw

  ·- A screw propeller. ...

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• screw jaws

  A wry-mouthed man or woman. ...

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• archimedes' screw

  An ingenious spiral pump for draining docks or raising water to any proposed height, the invention o...

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• auxiliary screw

  A vessel in which the screw is used as an auxiliary force. Such a vessel is usually fully masted for...

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• barrel-screw

  A powerful machine, consisting of two large poppets, or male screws, moved by levers in their heads,...

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• hand-screw

  A handy kind of single jack-screw. ...

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• jack-screw

  A small machine used to cant or lift weighty substances, and in stowing cotton or other elastic good...

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• screw-dock

  See gridiron. ...

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• screw-propeller

  A valuable substitute for the cumbersome paddle-wheels as a motive-power for steam-vessels: the Arch...

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• screw-well

  A hollow trunk over the screw of a steamer, for allowing the propeller to be disconnected and lifted...

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• twin-screw

  A steamer fitted with two propellers and independent engines, to enable her to turn rapidly on her o...

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• up screw!

  The order in steamers to lift the screw on making sail. ...

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• off at a tangent

  Going in a hurry, or in a testy humour. ...

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• screw-gammoning for the bowsprit

  A chain or plate fastened by a screw, to secure a vessel's bowsprit to the stem-head, allowing for t...

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