A wooden footstool.
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
To play the game of cricket.
An Archimedes screw.
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.
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.
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.
To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.