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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An apparatus for holding the dies that cut threads on screws, bolts, pipes, or rods.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contrivance for holding the dies used in screw-cutting. It is made in various forms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A component that holds a
die that cutsscrew threads
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders
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