A propeller that rotates to push against air.
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Examples for "prop "
1 Government officials insisted more money was needed to prop up the industry.
2 Image via Canva Food and drink: These can be another great prop .
3 OPEC's decision to hold oil production steady also helped prop up prices.
4 The prop in the door had been unscrewed and put in again.
5 Rockwell replied six minutes later with a try from prop David Magee.
1 The flimsy, broad fan of the airscrew - like the wing, a delicate skeleton covered with shimmering film-beganto turn.
2 Dom saw the metallic sheen of its wings as it hovered around the light, and the haze of its tiny airscrew .
3 Yet he was not quite helpless; the airscrew still worked, and while he had power there was still some measure of control.
4 The machine gun soon followed, but its use in tractor machines was impracticable on account of the danger of hitting the airscrew .
5 Hooke had spread out large drawings of wings and airscrews .
1 There was a fan up there, its three blades reminding me of an airplane propeller .
2 An airboat is a flat-bottomed vessel with an airplane propeller at the back and is useful in shallow water and swamps.
3 The government has found enough trees to yield one million board-feet, which went into stocks and airplane propellers .
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