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• The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.From the entry pitch
• After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.From the entry feather
• The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it.From the entry fluke
• In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.From the entry disc
• Propellers can run afoul in heavy seaweed, and ships are said to be afoul when they collide.1995, James Laurence Pelletier, Mariner's Employment Guide, page 514. From the entry run afoul
• It's a highly contagious disease which can affect all propeller mechs.1979, Daved V. Arel, “Switchitis”, in Mech, page 6. From the entry mech
• Ideal ornamentation for his den wall is a real (but nonairworthy) wooden propeller.1966 December, Patricia Demarest, “Presents for Pilots”, in Flying Magazine, volume 79, number 6, page 69. From the entry nonairworthy
• Unreversing the propeller is accomplished by moving the throttle forward from the reverse position.1955, Northrop Institute of Technology, Charles Edward Chapel, Aircraft Power Plants, page 299. From the entry unreverse
• She was drifting more slowly now, her propeller fouled in kelp.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry foul
• I love me some diaperboys wearing propeller beanies.2020 December 5, @SkunkTales1, Twitter, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2026. From the entry diaperboy
• The propeller windmilled in front of them.2004, Deborah Bedford, If I Had You. From the entry windmill
• The propeller simply windmilled in the slip stream.2000, Walter J. Boyne, Philip Handleman, Brassey's Air Combat Reader, page 18. From the entry windmill
• His witty book ends with ski specialties such as propeller hops, gazelle christies, the gelaendesprung, the umsprung and the quersprung.1965, Curtis W. Casewit, Ski Fever: How to Master the Fastest-growing Winter Sport. From the entry quersprung
• A is essentially a workstand, intended to hold the axle and part of the propeller shaft while doing repair work thereon.1917, Morris A. Hall, George W. Cravens, Automobile Troubles and Repairs: Welding- Vulcanizing, page 70. From the entry workstand
• The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times. From the entry due to
• At last, one morning, the propeller was quiet, and the Narwhal was pervaded with an atmosphere of excitement.1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co.…. From the entry at hand
• Snow is probably not in the ontology of a manatee, but outboard-motor propellers may well be, along with seaweed and fish and other manatees.2017, Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back, →ISBN. From the entry ontology
• The rope used had to be long enough to get the aquaboard rider well away from the propeller—fifteen feet was a good length.2013, Claudine Burnett, Paul Burnett, Surfing Newport Beach: The Glory Days of Corona Del Mar. From the entry aquaboard
• Placed under propeller blades, pitch blocks give the prop repairman a surface against which to restore the blade to factory shape and angle.2001 January, Dudley Dawson, “Spin Control: When damage needs repair, place your props in good hands”, in Yachting, volume 189, number 1…. From the entry pitchometer
• If you think of an outboard motorboard as a lever, the propeller is the thrust point and the transom is the fulcrum.1979 April, Gary Garbrecht, “MotorBoating”, in Outboard Power: How To, volume 143, number 4, page 174. From the entry motorboard
• Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.1957, Aviation Week - Volume 66, page 23. From the entry pod
• Although the dishpan is of small diameter, this irregular throw-off of ice could contribute to propeller unbalance in icing conditions particularly at higher fan speeds.1947, United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Technical Note - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, page 9. From the entry throw-off
• We explore a propeller based propulsion system, arranged in such a way that the translational and the rotational components can be decoupled, resulting in an holonomic hexarotor.2016, Pedro Roque, Rodrigo Ventura, “Space CoBot: a collaborative aerial robot for indoor microgravity environments”, in arXiv. From the entry hexarotor
• Here you can pick up mountain toys such as the ‘gee-haw whimmy diddle,' a stick with a propeller that turns when you rub the notches on the stick.2002, Jeremy Gray, Jeff Davis, China Williams, Lonely Planet Georgia and the Carolinas. From the entry gee haw whimmy diddle
• This was effected by a helicopteron or elevating propeller which sucked the air downwards by means of a vertical tunnel, right through the supporting gas body.1935, Wettenhovi-Aspa, The Diamondking of Sahara, Helsinki: K. F. Puromies Limited, page 74. From the entry helicopteron
• Model experiments have been made with two pairs of propellers, differing only in the fact that in one, excrescences representing nutheads were left on the boss.1927, George Stephen Baker, The Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion. From the entry nuthead
• In the machine having antinormal rotation the engine will be running in the opposite direction, taking the left-hand propeller for the tractor and the right-hand for the pusher.1917, “Discussion at Standards Committee Meeting”, in Transactions: Annual Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers, volume 12, page 4. From the entry antinormal
• Weather conditions worsened and the bombers flew into a huge electrical storm that turned their propellers into giant firewheels, as one pilot reported, and blew them all over the sky.2009, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945. From the entry firewheel
• AbderRahim Hakmoun, dressed in an orange tunic and a bejeweled, fezlike hat, spun its tassel like a helicopter propeller, smacking his bare feet on the stage in a complex pattern.2007 January 15, Sia Michel, “Stomping With Sintirs as a Route to Trance”, in New York Times. From the entry fezlike
• For reducing tonal noise, e.g., generated by engines and propellers, the reference microphone can be replaced by a nonacoustic reference sensor, e.g., a tachometer or an optical or inductive sensor.2002, Gillian M. Davis, Noise Reduction in Speech Applications, →ISBN, page 313. From the entry nonacoustic

Meaning of propeller

1. noun One who, or that which, propels.
2. noun A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.
3. noun A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.

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Questions about propeller in a sentence

How do you use propeller in a sentence?

Propeller is used as a noun. For example: “The plane’s propeller spun rapidly before takeoff.”

What is a short sentence with propeller?

“The plane’s propeller spun rapidly before takeoff.”

What does propeller mean?

Propeller means one who, or that which, propels.