ARCHIMEDES' SCREW


Meaning of ARCHIMEDES' SCREW in English

[Ar.chi.me.des' screw] n [Archimedes] (ca. 1859): a device made of a tube bent spirally around an axis or of a broad-threaded screw encased by a cylinder and used to raise water

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