| 单词 | screwing-engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrewing-engine C2. attributive. Designating equipment used for making screws or cutting screw threads, as screwing apparatus, screwing-engine, screwing-machine, screwing table, screwing tackle, etc. ΚΠ 1831 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 19 Nov. 1/6 A Screwing-Machine, with Plates and Taps complete. 1861 F. Campin Pract. Hand-turning 120 Dies very similar to the above are also used in a machine called a screwing-engine. 1870 Amateur Mech. Workshop 47 The above [stock] forms the most usual screwing apparatus of the general mechanic. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Screwing-table, a kind of screw-stock, used for forming threads of screw-bolts or wooden screws. 1890 Daily News 22 Sept. 2/6 Lifting and screwing tackle are in good demand. 1909 Installation News 3 58 Screwing tools. 1983 Mariner's Mirror 69 456 Screws often bear evidence of the means used to produce them, whether by cutting with a single-point tool or with a chaser in a lathe or ‘screwing engine’, or whether by threading with screwing tackle that cut or forced up the thread. 2006 R. L. Hills in I. Inkster Hist. Techol. XXVI. 58 The differences in sizes of threads on nuts and bolts from different firms did not matter as long as the same screwing tackle was employed in effecting repairs. < as lemmas |
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