The revolution of the shaft so macerates and binds the fouled material that the engines are unable to turn the propellor in either direction and only a diver can clear it.
With the propellor blocked, the submarine must rise; for only with its propellor thrusting and its horizontal fins set to hold it down, can the submarine stay under.
Even if it tore away from them, the whirl of the propellor remained to renew the danger, sucking the trailing cords to itself and in one instant switching them around and around the spinning shaft.
But your propellor is broken by having that line jammed in it.
The blades of thepropellor are damaged beyond use.
The use of the air method of propulsion did away with the necessity of a large propellor such as most airships have to use, a propellorwhich must of necessity be very light and which is easily broken.
She is the only submarine on record that could go faster below the water than above it, for her two-man-power propellorbettered this by half a knot.
But the revolution of the propellor in one direction set up a reaction that caused the torpedo itself to partially revolve or heel over in the other, disturbing its rudders and swerving it from its course.
When he had reached an approximate equilibrium, he could move the submarine up or down, or hold it at any desired depth, by cranking a small vertical-acting propellor placed just forward of the conning-tower on the deck above.
An explanation of the way in which the wash-out is combined with a wash-in to offset propellor torque will be found on p.
He was putting the final touches on an aeroplane propellor to which he had administered a coat of varnish.
She will need a new propellor and her running gear is crumpled up badly, but I doubt very much if the planes are damaged, and I don't see that the engine has suffered.
Jimmy Hill's pretensions ran to a gilt aeroplane propellor for the front of each soft khaki hat.
They used long branches of trees for levers and, inch by inch the motor boat was shoved astern until the propellor dipped once more into the lake.
The water had receded so much that the propellor was part way out.
Gahan shrugged impatiently--there must not be a propellor within a thousand haads.
There were swords and spears and several large, two-bladed battle-axes, the heads of which bore a striking resemblance to the propellor of a small flier.
There was nothing needed but a propellor to make her fit for the long voyage to Helium.
The craft even without a propellor would still answer the purpose his plan required of it--provided the captors of Tara of Helium were a people without ships, and he had seen nothing to suggest that they had ships.
We wedged our masts forward (where we could) and slung a gaff on the fore side of the foremast; we planked the funnel to look more or less upright; we painted a curling bow wash over the propellor and a black elaborate stern on the bows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propellor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
