screw

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slang for sexual intercourse
have sexual intercourse with
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
To force
cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
To turn, as a screw
someone who guards prisoners
An extortioner
a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
turn like a screw
tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw
Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something
Anything shaped or acting like a screw
A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels
An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity
A small packet of tobacco
An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance
A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). 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
An amphipod crustacean
Hence: To practice extortion upon
To twist
To examine rigidly, as a student
To use violent mans in making exactions
To turn one´s self uneasily with a twisting motion

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