<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">When I worked in Colonial Williamsburg I learned that in the 18th century, a screwdriver was a hammer. What we now call a screwdriver was then called a screw TURNER. Early screws were so course-grained that they were often driven in with hammers. Alternatively, you could turn them in with screw turners.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 6, 2019, at 11:53 AM, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" class="">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Klingon word: Hut'In vIl<br class="">Part of speech: noun<br class="">Definition: screw<br class="">Source: email to Qov, 13 august 2012<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class=""><br class="">(Qov < Okrand, 8/13/2012): The word for screw is {Hut'In vIl}, which is, of course, a ridgy {Hut'In}. Turns out {Hut'In} is the word for nail. Maltz also volunteered that the word for spike is {wIl}.<br class=""><br class="">SEE:<br class="">Hut'In <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>nail (n)<br class="">vIl <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>be ridgy (v)<br class=""><br class="">SEE ALSO:<br class="">mI'rab <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>spiral (n)<br class="">Hut'In <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>nail (n)<br class="">pu' <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>spike (on boot) (n)<br class="">DuQwI' <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>spike (n)<br class=""><br class="">ver <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>be spiral (v)<br class="">voD <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drill, bore (v)<br class="">mup <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>impact, strike (v)<br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Voragh<br class="">Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>