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n. 1 (context aviation nautical English) The disturbed mass of air or water pushed aft by the propeller of an aircraft or propeller-driven watercraft. 2 byproduct of thrust produced by a propeller.
Usage examples of "prop wash".
No prop wash even, not a trace of the trail she ought to be leaving in the sea from her movement and her turning propeller.
At four knots, the prop wash was not as extreme as it would have been if the boat had been speeding along at its maximum of eighteen.
Its scream cut off and the limp body was caught in the combined prop wash and sent whirling back, narrowly avoiding a further collision with the tail assembly.
But the prop wash was picking up, and it was becoming harder to hold on to the slick, rounded surface.
Once out of the main force of the prop wash, he hung on the lad- der and looked back.
The security guards and the maintenance crew turned away and scurried for the warmth of a nearby hangar as the prop wash lashed their backs.
The waves showed no whitecaps, and the only foam came from the prop wash and the bows of the boats as they shouldered their way through gentle swells.
It had rained the night before, and the runway was slick with pools of water on which the helo's prop wash etched churning patterns.
Five minutes later he was bracing himself against the chopper's prop wash on the yacht's heliport.
Her back was fanned by prop wash from the copter hovering overhead.
The wings and fuselage quivered in symphony with the four vibrating engines as their prop wash hurled dust and debris under the horizontal stabilizer into the night.
Rick shot across the hotel within five feet of the chimney and dropped so low that his prop wash flattened the reeds in the marsh.
Rick saw Scotty emerge from the lab building and go right back in again as the prop wash caught him.