Meanings of parachutist in English

The parachutist's identity was being publicly withheld pending notification of his family.

The Queen was a parachutist that slipped her harness upon landing.

Like a parachutist about to make a jump, Hardesty briefly closed his eyes.

Nor was Garnerin the only successful parachutist at this period.

Three years later, Durrance repeated the route to rescue a parachutist stuck atop the tower.

The parachutist came on the roof; he broke nothing.

I bit it back, hung from the moment like a parachutist braced in the jump hatch.

Our roof looked to Joe and Jack as if it might be ideal for launching a parachutist.

I saw the water splash, and apparently there was a fourth parachutist, said Kils, who runs charter boats.

Puppets cavort: big chickens, a tiny parachutist and a winning ginger tom with round cheeks and skedaddling ways.

The dangers of spinning were explained to me by retired Air Force colonel and master parachutist Dan Fulgham.

Castle watched Sarah rearrange him, picking out the officer and digging out a parachutist from under a thigh.

Every dead parachutist had a smug kind of half smile and a look of extreme satisfaction on his face.

One day it was gardener, the next day sailor, mathematician, parachutist, silversmith, musician, painter, banker, snake charmer: the list was inexhaustible.

Two men came out of the hatch and started a conversation about the parachutist that had been reported on the radio.

In the initial phase, lasting around 10 seconds, the parachutist experiences "throw forward" from the motion of the aeroplane.