schroef.
screw (fastener)
Meaning & usage
screw (fastener)
a ship's propeller
an Archimedes screw
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French escroue, from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. Compare Old French escruve, from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)).
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