wordswarm: free dictionary lookup
look up a word or phrase
My Projects: Payphone Project . USPS Mailbox Locator . Found Photos . "The Etude" Magazine . Discarded Umbrella Carcasses . My Receipts
Telephone Exchange Names . My Film Photography . Sepulchral Portraits . WanderLIC . Old Receipts . Sorabji.ME . Sorabji.com
Wordswarms From Years Past



Adjacent Words

jackknife clam
jackknife-fish
jackleg
jacklight
Jackman
Jackmen
jackpot
Jackpudding
Jackquard loom
jackrabbit
jacks
Jacksaw
Jackslave
jacksmelt
Jacksmith
jacksnipe
Jackson
Jackson Day
Jackson Hole
Jackson Pollock
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Charles Thomas
Jackson, Glenda
Jackson, Joe

Full-text Search for "jackscrew"
1885

jackscrew definitions



submit to reddit

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: screw-operated jack [syn: jackscrew, screw jack]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1769 screw jack

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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





wordswarm.net: free dictionary lookup