jackscrew
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jackscrew
Example Sentences
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The jackscrew, used to set the device that raises and lowers the plane’s nose, indicates the jet was configured to dive, Cox said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2019
Last week investigators found a device known as a jackscrew in the wreckage, which suggests the Ethiopian flight might have had a problem with the automated system also suspected in the Lion Air crash.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2019
In the Ethiopian crash, there’s no suggestion that the jackscrew on the Boeing plane failed.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
In the Ethiopian crash, which killed all 157 people on board, there’s no suggestion that the jackscrew on the Boeing plane failed.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Your car is too big for one person to stir— Your chauffeur is a little man, too; Yet he lifts that machine, does the little chauffeur, By the power of a gentle jackscrew.
From What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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