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propeller plane

n. an airplane that is driven by a propeller

Usage examples of "propeller plane".

After the huge jet liner, this little twenty-passenger propeller plane seemed like a toy.

Hell, when they started flying jets and rocket planes at Muroc, somewhere there must have been the old guys, the bitter old bastards, the remember-whens, who could just fly the hell out of a propeller plane and were still insisting that that was what it was all about.

It caught the four-engine propeller plane on its right wing, knocking out its outboard engine.

He was referring to a small propeller plane that was stored in a tin hangar next to the strip runway.

Renie looked up as a distant but still unbelievably large dragonfly skimmed the shoreline and started out across the river, loud as an ancient propeller plane.

From overhead came the grinding drone of a propeller plane circling Farmer Islands small, private runway.

He compared pre-Beatles music to the bass roar of a propeller plane, and the ensuing post-Beatles rock to the metallic whine of a jet engine.

I feel like I just stepped from a propeller plane to an interplanetary rocket.