Propeller is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROPELLER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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.
• revolving shaft with blades for driving a ship or aircraft
• One who, or that which, propels.
• A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.
• A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
• a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water
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 PROPELLER

propellers14 propellor13 propulsor13

How to use PROPELLER in a sentence

• If he let the engines go, something might break when the propeller got hold again.
• The tug lay nearly motionless amidstream, her propeller slowly revolving.
• Half an hour afterwards, he rang his telegraph and the clang of engines died away while the throb of the propeller stopped.
• It is the first time they have come so close to the ship in the pack, and there can be little doubt that the absence of motion of the propeller has made them bold.
• For a few moments all went well, then those who watched were horrified to see the propeller slow down and nearly stop, while the wind carried the air-ship toward the Tower.
• The weight of the steamship is already supported by the water, and all that is required of the propeller is to push her forward.
• The propeller made just about five turns, I should say.
• Her propeller-shaft was 160 feet long, with a screw propeller at one end 24 feet in diameter.
• Johnny got down and went up to it, laid a hand on the propeller, where its varnish was still smooth.
• The third attempt set the propeller whirling in a blurred circle.
• He tilted the propeller against the adobe wall of the cabin, and went in without noticing that the door was open instead of closed as he had left it.
• There it stood, reared up on its silly little wheels, with its broken propeller still pointing straight up at the sky.
• Professor Greenhill has advanced in our pages a new theory of the screw propeller.
• Calvert urged that more attention should be devoted to studying the relative values of different portions of the propeller.
• The vessel was fitted with a propeller, rudder, and steering gear at each end, to enable it to run in either direction without having to turn around.
• However, he cheered them on to persevere, and for nearly half an hour the propeller thrashed away.
• THE PROPELLER This is a very graceful movement and never fails to excite admiration in onlookers.
• It was certain that there was no time to get out and crank the propeller and rise before the mad Fulbees would be upon them.
• The light chug-chug of an engine and the flapping of a propeller came up to them from the sea.
• Betty slowed it down at the throttle, and then, looking aft to see that all was clear, she slipped in the clutch that reversed the propeller.
• Each blade of the propeller he searched for a minute crack.
• They all worked well, and the only two problems Tom had to solve were the taking care of the recoil from the guns and finding out why the propeller had broken.
• In due time, which happened to be when we took our first flight, the acid ate through whatever it was contained in, and then attacked the wood of the propeller blade.
• His propeller, his smoke-consumer, and his automatic brake were valuable commercial properties, but had all slipped from his control.
• To an American citizen, John Ericsson, the world owes the screw propeller.
• But they woke when the propeller, which the whole night had been revolving directly under their heads, suddenly stopped.

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