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airscrew

American

[air-skroo] / ˈɛərˌskru /

noun

British.

an airplane propeller.

airscrew British

/ ˈɛəˌskruː /

noun

an aircraft propeller

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of airscrew

First recorded in 1890–95; air ¹ + screw

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Location: The airscrew is a flathead screw that is located on the side of the carburetor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The airscrew must then act as a giant parachute.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fuel screw operates in basically the opposite way that the airscrew does.

From Time Magazine Archive

On an open frame at the tail whirled another but smaller airscrew, in a vertical plane: even the tail surfaces of the what-is-it were busy.

From Time Magazine Archive

It took the air near Berlin on the 3rd of November 1897, but something went wrong with the airscrew belts, and it was seriously damaged in its hasty descent.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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