Crossword clues for ripcord
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
- A cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent
- Parachute attachment
- Parachutist's need
- Leaving the plane, one may use this free, fitted with copper and gold
- Parachute part
- Parachutist's pull
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A cord to release a parachute from its sack.
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
Wikipedia
Ripcord is an American syndicated television series that ran for a total of 76 episodes from 1961 to 1963 about the exploits of a skydiving operation of its namesake.
Ripcord or rip cord may refer to:
- Ripcord (skydiving), the mechanism used to release a parachute
- FSB Ripcord, fire support base from the Vietnam War
- Ripcord (album), a 2016 album by Keith Urban
- Ripcord (Amusement Park Ride), an amusement park free-fall ride
- Ripcord (TV series) a 1960s TV series
- Rip Cord (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Ripcord, a pullstring used with a launcher to make a Beyblade spin
- Rip cord, of an optical cable, a parallel cord of strong yarn that is situated under the jacket(s) of the cable for jacket removal
- Ripcord Games, a video game publisher
- Ripcord Networks, a voice and video cryptographic security company
- Ripcord, a song from Radiohead's debut album Pablo Honey.
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 and the pilot chute is released, opening the parachute. On tandem systems the ripcord releases the 3-ring release system anchoring the bridle to the harness-container, allowing the parachute to open.
Ripcord is the ninth studio album by New Zealand-born Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on 6 May 2016, through Capitol Nashville. For this album, Urban collaborated with musicians such as Carrie Underwood, Pitbull and Nile Rodgers.
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.