Crossword clues for screws
screws
- Hinge fasteners
- Hardware store binful
- "Some assembly required" extras
- Twists to tighten
- Things with heads and threads
- They're turned and tightened
- They have threads and heads
- Spiral nails
- Small hardware items that have threads
- Physical coercion
- Parts of many DIY kits
- Messes (up)
- Hardware store collection
- Hardware buys
- Beds, less politely
- Assembly needs, frequently
- Twisty items
- Pressure, metaphorically
- Hardware store boxful
- Things driven on construction sites
- Pressure, so to speak
- Propellers on ships
- Guards in a slammer
- Hardware items
- Fasteners
- Star where R2D2 runs amok with a few ...
- Woodworker's fasteners
- Threaded nails
- Threaded fasteners
- Wood fasteners
- Some propellers
- Relatives of bolts
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "screws".
They are at least once a week to examine the guns and all the iron work of the carriages, and see that they are kept free from rust, and especially the eccentric axles, elevating screws, and pivot-bolts, which must be protected by a mixture of tallow and white-lead, or other similar coating.
The threads of the screws of the bolts above named must be coated with the lacquer for small arms.
The instrument is then set vertical, by a spirit-level on the cogged driving-wheel, and the four pairs of set screws on the clamp-head embracing the cascabel.
The bar is then levelled by two screws placed near the inner end, and a spirit-level on its upper surface.
The screws have the same thread as those for the present reinforce-sight.
The iron work should be freed from rust, all screws be made to work easily, and be well cleaned and coated with proper composition.
The glasses are to be held in place by brass screws, after being closely fitted and having their edges made perfectly tight.
Before replacing screws, oil them slightly with good sperm oil, as inferior oil is converted into a gum, which clogs the operation of the parts.
This will save the mechanism of the lock from shocks, which are very injurious to it, and which tend to loosen and mar the screws and split the wood-work.
Which kind of screws up the idea of us joining forces to take on the Starflyer.
It was designed to anchor itself to the ground if it was caught in the open when the morning storm arrived, with four big screws underneath that could wind themselves deep into the hard sands of the wet desert.
The screws on the chassis started to wind down into the hard-packed sand with a strident metallic whine.
You replace them every couple of years, and that protects the screws and rudder by remote control, like.
The whole operation took only fifteen minutes, and the shiny new screws were fully attached, and new protective anodes set in place.
Her hull was shaped almost like that of a real ship rather than a whale, which made her relatively slow underwater, but her twin screws made for greater maneuverability, especially in shallow water.