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
It�s often used on large, single-screw commercial ships, but is virtually unknown on twin-screw yachts.
From Time Magazine Archive
In general, though, a heavy, twin-screw cruiser that labors onto plane wastes fuel during every second of its struggle to level out.
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
The twin-screw gunboat "Melik" also steamed up the river a few miles, but neither quest resulted in adding much to the information already possessed as to the Khalifa's intentions and exact whereabouts.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
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