Archimedes' screw

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Archimedes' screw (plural Archimedes' screws)

  1. (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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