Crossword clues for screecher
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of screech; one who screeches. 2 (context dated English) A bird of the former category Picariae, distinguished from the songbirds.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A screacher is a sail that combines the features of a spinnaker and a reacher.
Its similarity with a spinnaker is that it is not attached to a stay along its luff, and typically has a slightly larger curvature than a genoa. Luff shape and tension is maintained by the halyard and a bolt rope which is woven into the sail itself, and it is this stiff tensioned rope which allows the sail to be furled on itself. In addition, many screachers are gybed by allowing the sail to fly free and pass in front of the bolt rope and invert, much in the same way that an asymmetrical spinnaker is gybed. Tacking with a screacher may require furling and re-setting. The similarity with a genoa is that it is typically a white sail, and the clews always overlap the mast.
Usage examples of "screecher".
Then, because he was a realist, he also built a shooting range when he practiced daily with his burner, his Screecher, and his other weapons.
Nighthawk pulled his Screecher out of his belt and pointed it at the Kid.
Night, pulling out his Screecher and aiming it at the huge mirror behind the bar.
Jeff fired his Screecher once, and Nighthawk literally flew back through the air, landed with a thud, and lay still.
I decided to pack the Burner and the Screecher and leave the bullet gun and the imploder behind.
At any rate, I replaced the Screecher in its container, climbed into the vehicle, and told the driver to proceed.
I sprang out of the vehicle and moved ahead of the trackers, Screecher in hand.
There were hundreds of them, and they came at us fearlessly, but one spray with a Burner or a Screecher could bring down fifteen to twenty of them in less than two seconds.
Just take a Burner and a Screecher and kill whatever we need to eat as quickly and efficiently as possible.
I saw another motion, used my Screecher, and saw an Orange Eye fall out of a tree a quarter of a mile away.
Ngami to stop using his Screecher and to go back to firing his Burner.
Dickie Deer Mouse was careful to keep away from Solomon Owl, and his cousin Simon Screecher, and all the rest of the Owl family.
But he made up his mind not to let Simon Screecher know that he was worried.
And he was surprised to notice that Simon Screecher did not act overjoyed at seeing his cousin.
Solomon Owl told his cousin Simon Screecher, while Dickie Deer Mouse stood stock still on the ground beneath the tree where the two cousins were sitting.