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A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng. There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side. Spenser. Faithful to whom to thy rebellious crew Milton.

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

See Cruet.

A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.

A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.

A corkscrew. Swift.

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

To grow together. [Obs.] Spenser.

An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

To decrease. [Obs.] Spenser.

A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form.

A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.

f the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.

Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.

A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.

One who, or that which, screws.

a. & n. from Screw, v. t. Screwing machine. See Screw machine, under Screw.

Increase; addition; surplus. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.