Direction to all hands to get the ship moving? (5)
I believe the answer is:
screw
'the ship moving?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'direction to all hands' is the wordplay.
'direction' becomes 's' (S is an example).
'to all hands' becomes 'crew' (I've seen this in another clue).
's'+'crew'='SCREW'
'to get' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for screw that I've seen before include "Helical thread" , "Apply backspin (snooker)" , "made tight by driver?" , "The Turn of the ___ , 1898 Henry James horror story" , "Old horse" .)