What is "screw threads"

Usage examples of "screw threads".

He has carried fully out the system of uniformity in Screw Threads which they initiated.

While I'm gone you stay down here and pick all the metal off the bolt and out of the screw threads.

Ericsson said, running his fingers over the thick iron screw threads.

The screw threads, in breech and block, would fit tightly against one another along a great length and contain both pressure and gas.

The rough-and-ready screw threads he had scratched in the edges of his discs did not enter kindly into their functions.

Once it is swung back into place, it is made fast by means of screw threads, wedges or in whatever way the inventor of the gun deems best.

Then I sat on the floor and one after the other warmed the nuts with my hand in the hope that the butter and ham fat would melt into the screw threads.

And, of course, they were screw threads, not quick-release couplings.

Around and around, until the head was clear and he could see the shining screw threads below it.

The fine spidery lines with a key giving details of materials and signs of screw threads were very different from the bright shiny toys that reached the shops, and Charlie looked from design to finished article slowly shaking his head.