screw propeller
a rotary propelling device, as for a ship or airplane, consisting of a number of blades that radiate from a central hub and are so inclined to the plane of rotation as to tend to drive a helical path through the substance in which they rotate.
Origin of screw propeller
1Other words from screw propeller
- screw-pro·pelled, adjective
Words Nearby screw propeller
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How to use screw propeller in a sentence
In fact, the Lycian design is a fair representation of the modern screw propeller, and gives the idea of a whirling motion.
The Swastika | Thomas WilsonThe first ship fitted with the screw propeller was called the "Archimedes."
Great Facts | Frederick C. BakewellThe best steamers, therefore, are fitted with the twin-screw propeller.
The Story of Great Inventions | Elmer Ellsworth BurnsProfessor Greenhill has advanced in our pages a new theory of the screw propeller.
These were the building of iron instead of wooden ships and the replacing of the paddle wheel by the screw propeller.
Sinking of the Titanic | Various
British Dictionary definitions for screw propeller
an early form of ship's propeller in which an Archimedes' screw is used to produce thrust by accelerating a flow of water
Derived forms of screw propeller
- screw-propelled, adjective
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