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screw-pin
[screw n.1]
A pin with a screw cut upon it: a. the screw of a vice; also fig.; b. an adjusting screw, finger screw; c. the pin which forms the foundation of a screw.
1614T. Freeman Rub & Gt. Cast G 2, Since these three [sc. Chaucer, Lydgate and Gower] knew to turne perdy The Scru-pin of Phylosophy As well as they [sc. the Greeks and Romans]. 1631in Rymer Fœdera XIX. 315 For a whole Worke, consisting of the Pan, the cover of the Pan, the Scutchion and the screw Pynn. a1646J. Gregory Posthuma (1650), Terrestrial Globe 265 It [the Quadrant] is..affixed to the Meridian with a little Screw-pin, to bee removed at pleasure. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. i. 29 The Nut is turned about hard upon the Screw-pin. 1765H. Timberlake Mem. 16, I pulled the trigger, which missing fire, broke off the upper chap and screw-pin. 1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 175 A screw-pin, by which to regulate the main⁓springs of locks of every description of fire-arms. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 146 The screw-pin is some⁓times infirm, in consequence of its having but partially resisted the torsion. 1884C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iii. 115/2 By means of a nut on the screw-pin they are pressed closely together. |