screw

A device that has a helical function.

A device that has a helical function.

A device that has a helical function.

It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

A device that has a helical function.

A device that has a helical function.

To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.

To have sexual intercourse with.

Somebody told me [...] that she [...] acknowledged to him [...] that Nero [...] had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.

He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a couple of army nurses in adjoining rooms.

To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.

To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.

[…] 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, or the vassals in Germany and Poland […]

It is not surprising that the landowner strove to screw his tenants.

To contort.

He screwed his face into a hardened smile.

I had been calling Nobs in the meantime and was about to set out in search of him, fearing, to tell the truth, to do so lest I find him mangled and dead among the trees of the acacia grove, when he suddenly emerged from among the boles, his ears flattened, his tail between his legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except for minor bruises; but he was the most chastened dog I have ever seen.