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.
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 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.
One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
A sight on a sextant or compass.
The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
A weather vane.