Rudder is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RUDDER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a vertical blade used to direct the course of a vessel
• A riddle or sieve.
• The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.
• Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
• a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes
• (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel
• a flat piece hinged vertically near the stern of a boat or ship for steering.
• a vertical aerofoil pivoted from the tailplane of an aircraft, for controlling movement about the vertical axis.
• application of a rudder in steering a boat, ship, or aircraft
• device for steering a boat or aircraft
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• vertical hinged piece at the stern of a boat or at the rear of an aircraft, for steering

Words related to RUDDER

rudderless12 rudders9

Words that contain RUDDER

rudders9 rudderhead16 rudderless12 rudderpost14 rudderheads17 rudderposts15 rudderstock19 rudderstocks20

How to use RUDDER in a sentence

• In the motions of the animal, too, the tail takes a prominent part, and acts like the rudder of a ship, except that, instead of sideways, it moves upwards and downwards.
• The deck was instantaneously transformed into a lake, while at the same time the wind had so completely fallen that even the rudder enjoyed a holiday.
• From that moment we set up an English Rudder Grange in the establishment which Pomona had thus rudely wrenched, as it were, from the claws of the British Lion.
• Any heavy sea was therefore likely to carry away the rudder altogether, or the same accident might happen if the helm was put down too hard, rendering the ship unmanageable.
• She set her hand to the rudder! Perceiving that her mother had passed on ahead of her she sprang forward in a run.
• Then, too, the large ones that make the tail help the bird to fly, by acting like a rudder to steer with.
• He pointed out that a fruitful cause of accidents was the stopping of steaming all at once in the case of impending collision, by which the rudder lost control of the vessel.
• The rudder might have been gone for all he knew, the fires out, the engines broken down, the ship ready to roll over like a corpse.
• Then there was the long wallowing lurch, and the rudder came up, while the mast and the sodden sail went under.
• And the wind stood fair, and they sailed before it, and the ancient old sailors rested their backs, and told old tales, and took turn and turn about at the rudder.
• But the well-wrought ship did not obey the rudder, but kept ever on her way beyond rich Peloponnesus, Prince Apollo lightly guiding it by the gale.
• In some of those we had gone at a very good clip, and several times we had lost our rudder.
• Rocks above the surface are not much to be feared when you have power and a good rudder.
• In passing near the island of Juan Fernandez, one of them was damaged by a storm, her rudder broken, her mast disabled, and herself separated from her companion.
• When I reached the bridge, I found that the officer of the deck had already put the rudder hard left and rung up the emergency speed on the engine room telegraph.
• Anxiously, and with strained eyes, the brothers looked to see if their boat would answer her rudder.
• Only then did Hobson, to his bitter disappointment, discover that the rudder had been lost.
• A torpedo, in fact, is itself very like a submarine, more or less cigar-shaped, and with its own engine, screw, and rudder.
• It is fitted with a rudder and secured in the usual manner.
• Your affections are to you what the rudder is to the boat, and reason is your pilot.
• Sure enough, in a few moments we could just see a boat in the distance, two men rowing and one guiding the rudder.
• Bert had lost his hold of the rudder and the sail rope.
• But finding that it could not double a point in this way, it fired two shots as a call for help, just when the rudder struck.
• In place of a rudder the steering oar had to be used.
• The rudder was taken off the boat, and an oar lock was fastened to the stern to hold the steering oar.

Similar words containing RUDD without suffix er

rudd6 rudds7 ruddy10 cruddy13 rudded9 ruddle8 crudded12 cruddle11 rudders9 ruddied10 ruddier9 ruddies9 ruddily12 rudding10 ruddled10 ruddles9 ruddock15 cruddier12 crudding13 cruddled13 cruddles12 ruddiest10 ruddling11 ruddocks16 ruddying14 cruddiest13 cruddling14 ruddiness11 ruddleman13 ruddlemen13 uncrudded14 rudderhead16 rudderless12 rudderpost14 rudderheads17 rudderposts15 rudderstock19 ruddinesses13 rudderstocks20

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