hand screw

hand screw
1. a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
2. Also called hand-screw clamp. Carpentry. a clamp having two wooden jaws that are adjusted by two long screws. See illus. under clamp1.
[1755-65]

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