Bed screw

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  ·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 ...

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• 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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• Bed

  ·vt To place in a bed. II. Bed ·noun ·see Gun carriage, and Mortar bed. III. Bed ·vt To furnish wi...

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• Bed

  (Heb. mittah), for rest at night (Ex. 8:3; 1 Sam. 19:13, 15, 16, etc.); during sickness (Gen. 47:31;...

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• bed

  Put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a spade; said of one that is dead and buried. You will...

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• bed

  I. Flat thick pieces of wood, lodged under the quarters of casks containing any liquid, and stowed...

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• Bed

  The Jewish bed consisted of the mattress, a mere mat, or one or more quilts; the covering, a finer q...

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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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• tangent-screw

  A screw acting tangentially to a circle, by means of which a slow motion may be given to the vernier...

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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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• Air bed

  ·- A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed. ...

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• Bed rock

  ·- The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. ...

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• Bed steps

  ·- Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height. ...

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• Bed-molding

  ·noun ·Alt. of Bed-moulding. ...

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• Bed-moulding

  ·noun The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. ...

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• Truckle-bed

  ·noun A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed. ...

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• Trundle-bed

  ·noun A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher...

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• Water bed

  ·- A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used ...

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• Bed-chamber

  An apartment in Eastern houses, furnished with a slightly elevated platform at the upper end and som...

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• bed-maker

  Women employed at Cambridge to attend on the Students, sweep his room, &c. They will put their hands...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bed-spread

  In the interior parts of the country, the common name for a bed-quilt, or coverlet. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• indian bed

  An Indian bed of clams is made by setting a number of clams together on the ground with the hinge up...

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• bed-bolt

  A horizontal bolt passing through both brackets of a gun-carriage near their centres, and on which t...

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• mortar-bed

  See bomb-beds, &c. ...

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• bed-beams

  See bomb-beds, &c. ...

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• oyster-bed

  A "laying" of culch, that is, stones, old shells, or other hard substances, so as to form a bed for ...

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• apple-pye bed

  A bed made apple-pye fashion, like what is called a turnover apple-pye, where the sheets are so doub...

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• feather-bed lane

  A rough or stony lane. ...

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• slug-a-bed

  A drone, one that cannot rise in the morning. ...

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• bed-of-guns

  A nautical phrase implying ordnance too heavy for a ship's scantling, or a fort over-gunned. ...

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• bomb-bed beams

  The beams which support the bomb-bed in bomb-vessels. ...

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• bed of a mortar

  The solid frame on which a mortar is mounted for firing. For sea-service it is generally made of woo...

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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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