screw
noun
a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
screwer
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a word derived from
screw.
Example Sentences
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You're a driver in disguise, a screwer by deputy, a wringer, and squeezer, and shaver by substitute.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Then his father had screwed the tops on with a screwer.
From The Doers by William John Hopkins
