screwing off

English

Verb

screwing off

  1. present participle of screw off
    • 1786, The Scots magazine, volume 48‎, page 152:
      ...where the keys of all the felons rooms, as well as the instruments for screwing off and on the irons of the prisoners, are kept.
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