Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hollow in the stern of some ships into which the propeller can be lifted after being detached from the shaft, when the ship is to run under canvas only.
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Examples
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The "Urgent" is a screw steamer, and right over the blades of the screw was an orifice called the screw-well, through which one could look from the poop down upon the screw.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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Midway down, a plank crossed the screw-well from side to side; on this I placed myself and observed the action of the screw underneath.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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Getting the battery to rights, and caulking the screw-well, which leaks badly when she is under way.
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Raphael Semmes 1843
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