What is "waterjets"

Usage examples of "waterjets".

He informed them that a pirate trawler was adrift southeast of Savannah, and added its coordinates, then he lowered the periscope and the wire, submerged to ten fathoms, and throttled up the waterjets once again.

Yet, even as Peter steadied the yoke and kicked the waterjets up to twenty knots, the vehicle began moving away, slowly at first, yet gaining speed.

The girl in front of her jumped to avoid one of the two waterjets and slammed into Wanda-Jean.

And he enjoyed the pure, sensual pleasure of giving himself over to the immersion room at the end of a long day, letting its lifters and waterjets turn him and pummel the fatigue from his muscles while the steam rose around him, then relaxing while the airjets blew him dry.

Black and sleek, with stubby masts and waterjets flaring from its stern, its hybrid shape was for Skeen a paradigm of the incongruities and anachronisms she found here on Mistommerk.