A barrack term for furbishing up of accoutrements.
“I got the screws last night, but I was busy soldiering till too late.”—J. H. Ewing: Story of a Short Life, p. 35.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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