screw wheel

A worm-wheel (q. v.). screw-wrench, s. [SCREW-KEY.] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1073.png:[blocks in formation] *3. To raise extortionately; to rack. "The rents of land in Ireland, since they have been so be about two millions."- Swift . (Todd.) enormously raised and screwed up, may be computed to 4. To oppre by exactions; to use violent means to. "Our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France." -Swift. ( Todd .) 5. To obtain or gain by force, or the exercise of any strong influence. B. Intransitive: 1. Lit .: To be propelled by means of a screw. 2. Fig .: To be oppre ive or exacting; to use vio lent means in exacting. (1) To screw up: To fasten up with screws; spec if., to fasten the outer door of an obnoxious person, so as to prevent egre . ( Univ . Slang .) (2) To screw up one's courage: To summon up courage. screwed, adj. [SCREW, verb.] Drunk, tipsy. (Slang.) [f. TIGHT.] screw-er, s. [Eng.screw, v.; -er.] One who or that which screws. screw-ing, pr. par. or a. [SCREW, v.]