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Parachute feature
Answer for the clue "Parachute feature ", 7 letters:
ripcord
Alternative clues for the word ripcord
- 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's pulled to open a parachute
- Parachute attachment
- Leaving the plane, one may use this free, fitted with copper and gold
- It prevents you from dropping dead
- Parachutist's pull
- Parachute part
Word definitions for ripcord in dictionaries
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
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A cord to release a parachute from its sack.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I reached round for my ripcord but could not find it. ▪ With another supreme effort I reached round and pulled the ripcord .
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 anticipationto 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.