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Examples
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The shell is not only screw-shaped, but also has some asymetrical distortions on the sculpture of the "keel".
A screwed up snail AYDIN 2009
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Taucha, for coffee roasters with movable partitions and "screw-shaped declining walls."
All About Coffee 1909
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According to lore, Archimedes created a device with a revolving screw-shaped blade to pump water against gravity: the Archimedes screw.
NYT > Home Page By EVELYN M. RUSLI 2011
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Because if this new screw-shaped coffin catches on, you're out of a job.
mental_floss Blog 2010
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“The pipe running from the lower part of the balloon runs into this cylindrical receptacle through the lower plate; it penetrates the latter and then takes the form of a helicoidal or screw-shaped spiral, the rings of which, rising one over the other, occupy nearly the whole of the height of the tank.
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