Definition of Screw-topped

1. Adjective. Having a lid with a spiral groove.

Similar to: Topped

Lexicographical Neighbors of Screw-topped

screevers
screeves
screeving
screich
screiched
screichs
screigh
screighed
screighs
screw-loose
screw-off
screw-offs
screw-pine family
screw-top
screw-topped (current term)
screw-tops
screw-up
screw-worm
screw arteries
screw auger
screw augur
screw back
screw bean
screw cap
screw caps
screw drive
screw elevator
screw eye
screw it

Literary usage of Screw-topped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1891)
"The collector should also be furnished with a number fcks, into which he may transfer the samples thus obtained, »one are so convenient as the screw-topped ..."

2. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"... screw in its interior, into which is fitted one of the screw-topped .bottles made by the York Glass Company ; (3) a ring or hoop for ;i muslin ring-net. ..."

3. The Microscopist: A Manual of Microscopy, and Compendium of the Microscopic by Joseph Henry Wythe (1880)
"... or a screw collar for carrying a screw-topped bottle, which serves to bring up a sample of liquid; or it may have a ring for a musliu net. ..."

4. The Microscopist: A Manual of Microscopy and Compendium of the Microscopic by Joseph Henry Wythe (1877)
"... or a screw collar for carrying a screw-topped bottle, which serves to bring up a sample of liquid; or it may have a ring for a muslin net. ..."

5. The Microscopist: A Manual of Microscopy, and Compendium of the Microscopic by Joseph Henry Wythe (1880)
"... or a screw collar for carrying a screw-topped bottle, which serves to bring up ' a sample of liquid; or it may have a ring for a muslin net. ..."

6. The Microscopist: A Compendium of Microscopic Science Including the Use of by Joseph Henry Wythe (1883)
"... or a screw collar for carrying a screw-topped bottle, whk-h serves to bring up a sample of liquid; or it may have a ring for a muslin net. ..."

7. Memories of the Kaiser's Court by Anne Topham (1914)
"After bathing we had tea, which was always brought to the shore in stone screw-topped bottles and drunk out of silver tumblers. After tea everybody looked ..."

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