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Definition of Screwers
1. screwer [n] - See also: screwer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Screwers
Literary usage of Screwers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Labor in Europe and America: A Special Report on the Rates of Wages, the by Edward Young (1875)
"Boiler-makers Millwrights Planers Turners screwers Drillers Apprentices Carters ,
Laborers IRON-FOUNDERS, ETC. : Occupation. $0 68 to $1 09 50 to 93 32 Per ..."
2. National Insurance by Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr, William Hubert Stuart Garnett, James Henry Taylor, Great Britain (1913)
"... firm of cart and carriage axle makers, and engaged as:— (1) Axle nut and washer
drop forgers, cap screwers, turners, and casters; (2) Axle l>ox ..."
3. Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days: From Forecastle to Quarter-deck by John D. Whidden (1908)
"The songs or " chanties " from hundreds of these gangs of cotton-screwers could
be heard all along the river front, day after day, making the levees of New ..."
4. Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days: From Forecastle to Quarter-deck by John D. Whidden (1908)
"The songs or " chanties " from hundreds of these gangs of cotton-screwers could
be heard all along the river front, day after day, making the levees of New ..."
5. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"... rely upon manual dexterity, and comprise pick-pockets, prop-nailers, thimble-
screwers, and shop-lifters. ..."
6. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"... rely upon manual dexterity, and comprise pick-pockets, prop-nailers, thimble-
screwers, and shop-lifters. ..."
7. The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew, John Binny (1862)
"... screwers," who wrench off watches; and shoplifters, who purloin goods from
shops; (ii. ..."
8. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"Of these the three chief branches are the stockers, screwers, and finishers.
Each of these branches, with its subbranches, is estimated to ..."
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