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  • noun Plural form of jackscrew.

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Examples

  • Before these belts were devised it was necessary for every gun crew to carry a supply of beams, jackscrews and devices to be used in extricating the heavy guns when they got fast in the mud.

    Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901

  • The snow, curling and eddying across the little blaze of lamps, whitened everything alike, tender and wheel and rail, the jackscrews, the bars, and the shoulders and caps of the men.

    The Daughter of a Magnate 1898

  • Care and common sense are the jackscrews to use in raising fine fruit.

    Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

  • The MRJ21 board-mount receptacle features a robust board-lock design for good PCB strain relief, and the cable assemblies provide offset jackscrews to ensure positive latching and secure cable retention.

    Electronicstalk - electronics industry news 2010

  • The MRJ21 board-mount receptacle features a robust board-lock design for good PCB strain relief, and the cable assemblies provide offset jackscrews to ensure positive latching and secure cable retention.

    Electronicstalk - electronics industry news 2010

  • The MRJ21 board-mount receptacle boasts a robust board lock design for superior PCB strain relief, and the cable assemblies provide offset jackscrews to ensure positive latching and secure cable retention.

    ThomasNet News - Today's New Product News 2010

  • The MRJ21 board-mount receptacle features a robust board-lock design for good PCB strain relief, and the cable assemblies provide offset jackscrews to ensure positive latching and secure cable retention.

    Electronicstalk - electronics industry news 2010

  • The MRJ21 board-mount receptacle features a robust board-lock design for good PCB strain relief, and the cable assemblies provide offset jackscrews to ensure positive latching and secure cable retention.

    Electronicstalk - electronics industry news 2010

  • a prodigal who comes home with the good health, and the money, and the appetite for calf; and when you are old, Uncle Ike, you sha'n't get wet any more, for I will buy you a duck boat that can't be tipped over with jackscrews, that you can't break with an ax, and that has air chambers in both ends, so it couldn't be sunk if loaded with railroad iron; and

    Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 1878

  • "Of course, we got busy with crowbars and jackscrews and tried to pry

    Side Show Studies Francis Metcalfe 1899

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