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noun

Propeller n.

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.

Propeller wheel,the screw, usually having two or more blades, used in propelling a vessel.

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Etymology of 'Propeller'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Propeller" Quotes from Famous Books

... did not rely so much on his propeller for speed as on his skilful adaptation of the principle on which the bird swoops. When the aneroid told Tinker that the car had reached the height of 3000 feet, he opened a valve, and let the gas escape slowly from the balloon. The instant she began to sink he ...

— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson

... of the engine had indeed stopped, and any one who noticed the vibration of the ship could tell that the propeller was revolving ...

— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

... airplane propeller has recently been patented by J. Kalmanson of Brooklyn, N. Y. Greater speed and marked saving in fuel is claimed for the invention, which may be attached ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various

... the plan offered by Henry Bushelson, which proposes to run the boats by means of his patent propeller, we may remark that the steam-engine with which the propeller is moved would sink the boat; and even if it would not, the propeller-blades, being longer than the depth of the canal, would dig about five hundred cubic feet of mud out of the bottom ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... certain it is to render lasting service when used within appropriate limits of strain. Indeed, a wrought iron of fine quality is better calculated to endure fatigue than any steel. This is particularly noticeable in steam hammer pistons, propeller shafts, and railroad axles. A better quality of wrought iron, therefore, has long been a desideratum, and it appears now that it has at ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various

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