Definition of Metal screw

1. Noun. Screw made of metal.

Generic synonyms: Screw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metal Screw

metal detectors
metal drum
metal filing
metal fume fever
metal glove
metal halide lamp
metal halide lamps
metal homeostasis
metal hydride
metal insert teeth
metal interface
metal master
metal money
metal plating
metal saw
metal screw (current term)
metal shop
metal wood
metalacyclic
metalammonia
metalammonium
metalanguage
metalanguages
metalate
metalates
metalating
metalation
metalations
metalaxyl
metalbearing

Literary usage of Metal screw

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The three screws of the clamp must all be tightened, and novices must remember that a metal screw cannot be tightened with the first turn, but that after a ..."

2. On modern methods of treating fractures by Ernest William Hey Groves (1916)
"103 shows the metal screw in comparison with the wood screw, and it can be readily seen that such a screw will hold because it fits into a socket made for ..."

3. Public Hygiene by Thomas Stewart Blair (1911)
"The vial shall be covered and made water tight by the use of a metal screw cap and a rubber or felt washer which has been immersed in melted paraffin, or, ..."

4. Science and Industry (1900)
"A screw pile is a pile having a short metal screw or ... metal screw piles are used extensively by the government In submerged work, such as lighthouse ..."

5. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by Master Car Builders' Association (1906)
"Machine screws are similar, except that they have no gimlet point and have a metal screw thread. They are used for uniting metallic parts. ..."

6. Shipbuilding Cyclopedia: A Reference Book Covering Definitions of by Bibber Webster, J. L. Bates, Stephen McKay Phillips, Alfred Henry Haag (1920)
"Machine screws are similar, except that they have no gimlet point and have a metal screw thread. They are used for uniting metallic parts. ..."

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