Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An airplane propeller.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an
airplane propeller .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
propeller of anaircraft ; theprop . - noun Any actuator disk whose working fluid is
air .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a propeller that rotates to push against air
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Examples
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The working range of the fuel screw on a four-stroke engine is one to three half-turns out, while the airscrew on a two-stroke engine has a working range of one-and-a-quarter to two half-turns out.
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Walkthrough: you have to put the objects in the blue spots baloon airscrew big nut watering can hand-saw bowling ball wheel leaf frog statue scissors
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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This was the variable-pitch airscrew, which made take-off and landing safer and increased the aircraft's maneuverability and climb during com - bat.
The HurricaneStory Gallico, Paul 1959
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Verkan Vall read of a Fourth Level aviator, in his little airscrew-drive craft, sighting nine high-flying saucerlike objects.
Police Operation H. Beam Piper 1934
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On the other hand, the single-seater tractors were potentially the superior fighters, and in order to protect the blades of the airscrew the French were the first to use deflector blades on them in tractor machines.
Aviation in Peace and War Frederick Hugh Sykes 1915
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Our early single-seater tractors were fitted with a Lewis gun fixed so as to fire over or at the side of the airscrew and actuated by a bowden wire, the most efficient, though not the most numerous, fighting machines at the end of 1915 being the Bristol Scouts.
Aviation in Peace and War Frederick Hugh Sykes 1915
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The machine gun soon followed, but its use in tractor machines was impracticable on account of the danger of hitting the airscrew.
Aviation in Peace and War Frederick Hugh Sykes 1915
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The monoplane, from the first, was a 'tractor' machine; its airscrew was in front of the planes, and its body, or fuselage, was covered in and streamlined, so as to offer the least possible resistance to the air.
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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A later difficulty caused by the forward position of the airscrew had nothing to do with flying.
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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Great Britain, maintained that the greatest hindrances to the solution of the problem of mechanical flight have always been the balloon and the airscrew.
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
sionnach commented on the word airscrew
da Vinci's word for a propeller.
July 19, 2008
qms commented on the word airscrew
It’s good for a lusty air crew,
No more, they contend, than their due:
High over the deep
While passengers sleep
To join in a lively airscrew.
October 2, 2018