单词 | screw-pin |
释义 | screw-pinn. 1. A threaded pin or rod; spec. (a) one used to adjust the position of something, as in a vice (also figurative); (b) one used to fix something in position or join things together; (c) one used to hold parts of a fractured bone in position. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > clamp > vice > pin of screw-pin1585 vice-pin1622 society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > screw > set-screw screw-pin1585 set-screw1850 1585 J. Blagrave Math. Iewel 65 Three rules there fastened by helpe of the skrew pinnes. 1590 J. Blagrave Baculum Familliare iii. 9 Let the graduator haue at his Apex H. some deuise with a socket or payre of cheekes, or else annexed to some such running bolt, as before in the standard carrieth the sightes, and a screw pin to fasten him in anie parte of the side. 1614 T. Freeman Rubbe & Great Cast sig. G2 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]. a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 265 It [sc. the Quadrant] is..affixed to the Meridian with a little Screw-pin, to bee removed at pleasure. 1716 E. Laurence Young Surveyor's Guide 132 Turn the Table about till the Needle stand over the Flower de Luce, and so fasten it with the Screw-pin, that the Table stir not. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 190 On this side [of the Eolian lyre] are seven strings of very fine gut, stretched over bridges at each end, like the bridge of a fiddle, and screwed up or relaxed with screw pins. 1826 Sporting Mag. 17 175 A screw-pin, by which to regulate the main-springs of locks of every description of fire-arms. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 115/2 By means of a nut on the screw-pin they are pressed closely together. 1940 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 June 978/2 The syringe is dismantled for cleaning by the removal of the small screw-pin, which acts as the pivot for the rod. 1986 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Conservation 25 107 The interesting threaded screw-pin and nut on the end of this axe. 2006 Scarborough Evening News (Nexis) 8 June This time I had a screw pin put in my left leg to connect my leg to my hip. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > screw > pin forming foundation of screw screw-pin1678 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 29 The Nut is turned about hard upon the screw-pin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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