a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | slang for sexual intercourse |
the act of moving with great haste | a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head |
a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener | a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air |
the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole |
a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech | someone who guards prisoners |
a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length | |
a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | |