jack-screw

Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a jack-screw.

Les Miserables 2008

M. Madeleine turned towards those present: — “Is there a jack-screw to be had?”

Les Miserables 2008

He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called orgueil

Les Miserables 2008

The meal was heated in a large, shallow pan, and then subjected to great pressure under a jack-screw.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

It is a mental jack-screw by which we wind ourselves up to a height from which we can look down on lacks in others.

Observations of a Retired Veteran Tinsley, Henry C 1904

Before I could apply the elevating mental jack-screw that raises me above all earthly troubles, I could not help feeling that the inquiry was pretty much like asking a scrambling lobster boiling in the pot, if he was not having a real gay evening?

Observations of a Retired Veteran Tinsley, Henry C 1904

The quick-ear’d teamsters, and chain and jack-screw men, heard not,

Song of the Redwood-Tree 1900

My mind was eminently disposed toward peace and tranquillity, but who could be peaceful and tranquil with a prospective jack-screw under the very base of his comfort and happiness?

The Magic Egg and Other Stories 1884

I think that it was the deadly dullness of this jack-screw work that I most resented -- the stupid monotony of doing precisely the same sort of utterly wearying work all day long and for day after day.

In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

Before I could apply the elevating mental jack-screw that raises me above all earthly troubles, I could not help feeling that the inquiry was pretty much like asking a scrambling lobster boiling in the pot, if he was not having a real gay evening?

Observations of a Retired Veteran Henry C. Tinsley 1868