"stage screw" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: stage screws [plural]
Etymology: stage + screw Head templates: {{en-noun}} stage screw (plural stage screws)
  1. (theater) A forged, or sometimes cast low thread count cut thread screw with a handle (sometimes made up of three holes) used to hold scenery in place in theaters (mostly prior to the 1990s). Categories (topical): Theater Translations (a screw with a handle): Bühnenschraube [feminine] (German), Theaterschraube [feminine] (German), Theater-Schraube [feminine] (German), śruba teatralna [feminine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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