Bed screw: Definition and part of speech

Bed screw

  1. A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.
  2. A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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