jack-screws

Having filled the ship up, in this way, to within four feet of her beams, the process of steeving commenced, by which an hundred hides are got into a place where one could not be forced by hand, and which presses the hides to the utmost, sometimes starting the beams of the ship, resembling in its effects the jack-screws which are used in stowing cotton.

Chapter XXIX. Loading for Home-A Surprise-Last of an Old Friend-The Last Hide-A Hard Case-Up Anchor, for Home!-Homeward Bound 1909

Some were placing immense jack-screws which were to give an initial impulse if it were needed to start the ship down the ways.

The Treasure-Train 1908

Being asked by a guest as to the time when I first visited Chicago, I stated the facts above given, when my interlocutor remarked, ` ` Yes, and if you had gone down into the cellar beneath the Tremont House you would have found our host working at one of the jack-screws. ''

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

They dug round him with spades; they put ties in front of his wheels, and jack-screws under him; they embraced him with the derrick-chain and tickled him with crowbars; while .007 was hitched on to wrecked cars and backed away till the knot broke or the cars rolled clear of the track.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

The organization of infants of every conceivable degree of intellectuality into classes, and their formal elevation through successive "grades" by means of cunningly devised educational jack-screws or block-and-tackle, does not constitute the complete dynamics of the universe, President Winston to the contrary, notwithstanding.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

The frogs were adjusted under the derailed wheels, the jack-screws were braced to lift and push with the nicest accuracy, and all was ready for the attempt to back the engine in trial.

A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

Eight several times were the jack-screws adjusted and the frogs clamped into position; but not until the ninth trial could the perverse wheels be induced to roll workmanlike up the inclined planes and into place on the rails.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

Enrailing frogs have a way of turning over at the critical instant when the wheels are climbing, and jack-screws bottomed on the tie-ends do not always hold.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

She says it's gettin 'too terrible about Hiram, every time as somebody fat dies anywhere or there's a piano to move or a barn to get up on jack-screws they send right for Hiram to be one o' the pallbearers an 'give him the heaviest corner.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891

Along the sides were ranged a score or so of jack-screws, some of them powerful enough to lift a twenty-ton weight, though worked by but one man.

Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy Kirk Munroe 1890