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Parachutist's pull
Answer for the clue "Parachutist's pull ", 7 letters:
ripcord
Alternative clues for the word ripcord
- A cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent
- Parachute releaser
- It's used in the fall
- Parachute attachment
- Chute mechanism
- It gets pulled in the fall
- A cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend
- It prevents you from dropping dead
Word definitions for ripcord in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A ripcord is a part of a skydiving harness -container system; a handle attached to a steel cable ending in a closing pin . The pin keeps the container closed and keeps the spring-loaded pilot chute inside. When the ripcord is pulled, the container is opened ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend a cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent
Usage examples of ripcord.
One of the other Filipinos plants his bare foot against the top of a small Honda portable generator and pulls on the ripcord, the tendons and wiry muscles popping out of his arm and back for a moment like so many ripcords themselves.
The sounds snowballed into a terrific roaring, and Raed moved one hand off the vibrating railing onto his belt, fingered the ripcord, and looked up in anticipation–to his astonishment, some civilians who had made it down from the landing above were squeezing between the firemen.
Something jerks mightily on his back: the static line, still attached to the airplane--God forbid that American fighting men should be entrusted to pull their own ripcords.
In fact, he hadn’t used his ripcord since his breakdown upon arriving in Upsilon Aquarius, almost ten years earlier.