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Jackscrew vs Ax - What's the difference?

jackscrew | ax |

As a noun jackscrew

is a jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew.

As a proper noun ax is

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jackscrew

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia jackscrew)
  • A jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew.

    • ax

    English

    Etymology 1

    See .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (label)

    • Verb

    (es)

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) acsian, showing metathesis from ascian. The regular literary form until circa 1600.

    Verb

    (es)
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
    • When they were come togedder, they axed off hym, sayinge: Master wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdom of israhel?
  • * 1979 , (Verna Mae Slone), What My Heart Wants to Tell , Kentucky 1988, p. 18:
  • *:‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’
    • English two-letter words English terms with multiple etymologies ----