twin-screw
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of twin-screw
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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One year later, Swanson built a twin-screw, steam logging tug boat and made his first trip to Glacier National Park.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
A twin-screw monohull can get in and out of tight places, with a good skipper.
From Time Magazine Archive
A helmsman can literally steer a twin-screw boat with the throttles and never touch the wheel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wednesday evening the twin-screw turbo-electric liner Morro Castle, 11,500 tons, lay at her Ward Line pier in Havana.
From Time Magazine Archive
These vessels could easily have carried many more hands; indeed, the newest type of Nile men-o'-war, the twin-screw steamers, were built to convey a thousand soldiers.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
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