Propellers is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROPELLERS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PROPELLER, someone who, or something which, propels, also PROPELLOR
• a mechanical device for propelling a boat or aircraft, consisting of a revolving shaft with two or more broad, angled blades attached to it.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that propels; a device that consists of a central hub with radiating blades placed and twisted so that each forms part of a helical surface and that is used to propel a vehicle (as a ship or airplane)

Words related to PROPELLERS

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How to use PROPELLERS in a sentence

• RUN BY COMPRESSED AIR By a compressed air arrangement motive power is furnished the torpedo in transit for its propellers.
• Finally in 1833 and 1834 we find him employed by a carrying company in London to conduct numerous trials with submerged propellers in the London and Birmingham canal.
• The hum of motors and the buzz of propellers being tuned up could be heard in many quarters.
• The propellers commenced to spin, and down the slight slope they ran with constantly increasing speed.
• The beating of the engine and the whirr of the propellers announced that they were off.
• Her powerful propellers had been set to the reverse.
• The principal purpose of this paper is to record the particulars of the propellers, and the results of the trials of several of these high speed twin screw ships.
• There are a few points of detail about these propellers which deserve a passing notice.
• Hermia climbed into the seat unaided, while Markham stood at one side and watched the propellers started.
• It rose heavily, and travelling with the fresh wind, the propellers whirling swiftly, it crashed into the trees at the other side of the enclosure.
• It was remarked, only, that from the standpoint of effective duty it would have been desirable to reduce the velocity of the water at its exit from the propellers.
• Therefore, it becomes an inquiry of some interest as to what angle of impact has been found best in those screw propellers which have given the best results in practical work.
• The propellers are made of steel and bronze, and each of the six blades of the two screws weighs eight tons.
• Another of the incidental advantages connected with twin screws was that smaller engines and smaller propellers were required, and therefore they might run them at a higher speed.
• For a long while we lay awake, straining our ears to catch the sound of firing or the drone of German propellers.
• The droning of propellers could be plainly heard, then it grew weaker and weaker, until it passed away.
• At night the sky was alive with the whirr of propellers, and shells whistled overhead and burst a long way off.
• All night long the propellers churned the gleaming water of the lake to foam, but without result.
• Tom Meeks and Chuck Crossman spun the propellers, sprang back to escape their vicious whirr as the respective engines fired, and quickly clambered into their machines.
• They are only permitted as propellers for all the other plain moments which are the common lot.
• Instead of propellers or paddle-wheels, he intended to send his craft ahead or to the rear, by means of a water cable.
• Lastly he descended into the lower hold and turned on the energy of repulsion to its fullest extent, at the same time stopping the engines which had been working the propellers.
• They continued to rise and the mist began to drift past them in patches, showing that the propellers were driving them ahead.
• The motive power consisted of three double-bladed wooden propellers, which could be operated together or independently.
• True, the speed would be less, with two propellers instead of three, and the craft would not steer as well, with the torn ends of the gas bag floating out behind.
• The propellers became almost invisible blades of light and shadow, and the aeroplane began moving over the grassy field.
• Tom whirled the propellers, and soon the motor was in motion.
• In shape it was not unlike the machines already in use, except that the propellers were of somewhat different design.
• Slowly the great propellers began to revolve, and then Tom, taking his place in the cockpit, turned on more power.
• The wind roared in his ears, louder than the whirling propellers.
• Jackson then spun the propellers, and, with a crackle and roar the motor started.
• The sound of their hoofs was like the pounding of a thousand propellers.

Similar words containing PROPELLER without suffix s

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