airscrew

American

[air-skroo] / ˈɛərˌskru /

noun

British.

an airplane propeller.

airscrew British

/ ˈɛəˌskruː /

noun

an aircraft propeller

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

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Leonardo da Vinci designed a spiral airscrew in the hope of achieving perpendicular flight.

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Adjusting: The airscrew requires a flathead screwdriver for adjustments.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first of these objections was not fully met until firing through the airscrew was introduced; the second was for a long time an accepted idea.

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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