To hit, especially with the fist.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To join or patch clumsily.
A clout nail.
The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
A home run.
A blow with the hand.
To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
To contort.
To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To screw back.
To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
Salary, wages.
An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
A casual sexual partner.
A prison guard.
A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
Backspin.
A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
A small packet of tobacco.
A ship's propeller.
An Archimedes screw.
The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
Rheumatism.
A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
An amphipod crustacean.