Word Meanings - THUMBSCREW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.

• Turn-buckle
  A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc.
• Turn-outs
  of Turn-out
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Siding
  of Side
• Siderographical
  Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
• Sidewinder
  See Horned rattler, under Horned.
• Turnbull's blue
  The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian.
• Turn-out
  The act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.
• SCREWCUTTING
  Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
• Havior
  Behavior; demeanor.
• Sideboard
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
• Siderographist
  One skilled in siderography.
• Sidewise
  On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.
• Turncoat
  One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.
• Turnover
  The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.
• SCREWDRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• Forefinger
  The finger next to the thumb; the index.
• Sidebone
  A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

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