Usually means: Device for lifting water upward.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archimedes' screw: Merriam-Webster
  2. Archimedes' screw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Archimedes' screw, Archimedes' screw: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Archimedes' screw: Wordnik
  5. Archimedes' screw, Archimedes screw: Wiktionary
  6. Archimedes' screw: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Archimedes' screw, Archimedes screw, archimedes screw: Dictionary.com
  8. Archimedes' screw, Archimedes screw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. archimedes screw: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Archimedes' screw, Archimedes screw: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Archimedes Screw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archimedes' screw, Archimedes screw: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. archimedes screw: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Archimedes screw)

noun:  Alternative form of Archimedes' screw [(engineering) A screwlike device invented by Greek mathematician Archimedes, ca. 200 B.C.E., which when twisted inside a cylinder, raises water from a lower level to a higher level, allowing irrigation of fields.]

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