Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A marine propeller or screw; a screw propeller.
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Examples
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The deck was struck twice damagingly, one shot near the propeller-wheel quite shattering and tearing the plate in its passage, and starting up twenty-five bolts, another starting plates and twenty bolts in the turret.
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