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The Collaborative International Dictionary
airscrew

airscrew \airscrew\ n. an airplane propeller.

Syn: airplane propeller, prop

Wiktionary
airscrew

n. 1 The propeller of an aircraft; the prop. 2 Any actuator disk whose working fluid is air.

WordNet
airscrew

n. a propeller that rotates to push against air [syn: airplane propeller, prop]

Usage examples of "airscrew".

The throbbing beat of her airscrews came faintly down the light breeze.

Distantly he heard the whup-whup of the airscrews, dimly he felt the flow of damp cold air around him.

The airscrew was driven by an engine powered by a chemical exothermic reaction—.