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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

Example Sentences

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Henson, completely discouraged, married and went to America; Stringfellow persisted, and in 1848 made a smaller model, ten feet in span, with airscrews sixteen inches in diameter.

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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.

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An engine of four horse-power, weighing forty pounds, with a wooden airscrew five feet in diameter, was, by his calculations, amply sufficient to maintain his glider in horizontal flight.

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On this scale he was successful with a machine driven by an airscrew and with a machine driven by the flapping of wings.

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This toy, which weighed only a little over half an ounce, was supported on wings, and was driven forward by an airscrew made of two feathers.

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