Crossword-Solution: PROPELLER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Propeller | n. | One who, or that which, propels. |
| Propeller | n. | 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. |
| Propeller | n. | A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PROPELLER (5)
The latter action is dubbed `feathering' by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily.
The ground fliers of Marentina contain just sufficient buoyancy in their automobile-like wheels to give the cars traction for steering purposes; and though the hind wheels are geared to the engine, and aid in driving the machine, the bulk of this work is carried by a small propeller at the stern.
AND WHAT DO YOU CALL SOMEONE WHO HAS A CALCULATOR IN HIS SHORT POCKET WITH A DOZEN BALLPOINT PENS? In my day it was a sliderule, and we called them propeller heads.
The lapping of the waves against the ship’s sides, the whirring of the propeller, the throbbing of the engines, drowned the almost soundless approach of the two.
And while he was thus occupied there came suddenly to him the vibration of machinery and the throbbing of the propeller.
Quotes with PROPELLER (3)
What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as "the prophet of bigger and better orgasms"? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young w…
The professor pointed out how he could drop a keel and a propeller into the water, in case he came down at sea, and after cutting the gas bag loose he'd have a seaworthy boat. He had everything on board for survival at sea, including fancy fishing gear, flares and weather balloons for distress signals, and both shortwave radio equipment and a low-frequency system for round-the-world communications." Boy! This is somethin' right out of Jules Verne... only better, maybe," said …
When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1958–2007).