Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device used to fair the lines of an underwater fitting.
- noun A streamlined superstructure on a submarine, holding the bridge and sometimes a conning tower.
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- noun nautical A device that improves the
streamlining of a vessel
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Examples
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Sir, the fairwater planes are up five degrees, coming to one hundred feet. '
The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991
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Throughout the four-hour run the wounded submarine had sounded like a wagonload of pipes, and McCafferty didn't want to think about how she had handled, with her fairwater planes hanging like laundry in a breeze.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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The sub suffered damage to its propeller, the fairwater plane, the rudder and the housing for the towed sonar array.
StrategyPage.com 2009
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"Communications is gone, fire-control is gone, fairwater planes gone.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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