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Definition of Jackscrew
1. Noun. Screw-operated jack.
Definition of Jackscrew
1. n. A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack,
Definition of Jackscrew
1. Noun. A jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jackscrew
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Jackscrew
1. A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Jack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackscrew
Literary usage of Jackscrew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The jackscrew is rigged so that by turning it will noiselessly force into the
crack of a safe door a succession of steel wedges; first one as thin as a ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"In an action for personal injuries received by reason of an alleged defective
jackscrew, a statement made by the plaintiff in answer to his physician's ..."
3. Physics of the Household by Carleton John Lynde (1914)
"The jackscrew is one of the simplest of the screw appliances, ... A jackscrew is
shown in Fig. n. The weight to be raised is placed on the head of the screw ..."
4. The International Journal of Orthodontia and Oral Surgery (1919)
"The jackscrew has been and doubtless will long continue to be the one form of
regulating appliance most used by dentists, for it seems almost impossible to ..."
5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(See jackscrew.) Builders' Jack. A. Sometimes, same as Jack, above. ... jackscrew.
A short steel or iron screw with appliances for turning it, ..."
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