| 单词 | screw box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrew box screw box n. †(a) Surgery an apparatus of metal and leather which can be fastened around a limb and tightened with a screw or screws in order to straighten the limb (obsolete rare); †(b) a small flattish piece of metal or other material, typically square or hexagonal, with a threaded hole used to secure it to a bolt; a screw nut (obsolete); (c) a device for cutting the thread on a wood screw (now rare). [In sense (a) after German †Schraublade (16th cent. as Schrauflade in the passage translated in quot. 1656).] ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nut nut1507 screw nut1604 screw box1656 maiden nuta1884 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > machine for cutting screw-threads > other screw-cutting equipment screw-plate1638 screw stock1740 burr1833 screw box1846 thread-gauge1877 pipe die1890 1656 A. L. Fox tr. F. Würtz Exper. Treat. Surg. ii. xxiv. 146 I will say nothing of that which is still in use, viz. of the Screw-box [Ger. Schraufladen] (which hath been a long time in practise) not regarding the great danger and hurt which they cause thereby,..which some use for Fractures. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 5 The Nut or Screw-Box hath also a Square Worm. 1823 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 5 242 As the shaft, w, turns, it acts in a nut or screw box, x, connected to the carriage, and thereby causes the carriage..to slide forwards. 1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 593 The instrument which is commonly employed for making long screws in the soft woods, namely, the screw box. 1863 Mechanic's Mag. 17 July 510/2 Each of the screws..passes through a screw-nut or screw-box carried by the collars..of the moveable cutters. 1954 R. Wailes Eng. Windmill xii. 121 The iron bands round the screw heads..were cut with a screw box in the same way as were bench screws. < as lemmas |
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