Airscrew is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 254 anagrams from letters in airscrew (aceirrsw).
First recorded in 1890-95; air1 + screw
In all but a few types of machine the airscrew is now retained in the forward position.
(p. 103) A later difficulty caused by the forward position of the airscrew had nothing to do with flying.
On this scale he was successful with a machine driven by an airscrew and with a machine driven by the flapping of wings.
The Fokkers late in 1915 had been fitted with guns which fired through the airscrew.
This ship, with an airscrew driven by manpower, attained a speed of five and a half miles an hour.
The machine gun soon followed, but its use in tractor machines was impracticable on account of the danger of hitting the airscrew.
The observer, being seated in the very prow of the machine, could fire a gun forward without being obstructed by the airscrew.
The motive power was supplied by twisted strands of rubber which, as they untwisted, turned the airscrew.
A good illustration of this may be found in the question of the airscrew.
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