Definitions for fuselage

fuselage fu·se·lage

Spelling: [fyoo-suh-lahzh, -lij, -zuh-, fyoo-suh- Fuselage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in fuselage (aeefglsu).

Definitions for fuselage

noun

  1. the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.

Origin of fuselage

1905-10; French, equivalent to fusel(é) spindle-shaped (derivative of fuseau spindle; see fusee) + -age -age

Examples for fuselage

Boeing does have one airplane with a long record of stress failures in its fuselage, the 737.

He hit the fuselage of his F-100 when he ejected, breaking his arm, damaging his eye and injuring his back.

"Not if you go under the fuselage to get Jack," objected Dave.

“Explosive decompression” where the fuselage breaks apart suddenly and catastrophically.

He gestured furiously toward the fuselage of the old Supernova.

Greatly to his surprise, Jack was not to be seen anywhere in the fuselage.

Like the wings, the tail surfaces—horizontal and vertical—easily break away from the fuselage and float.

However, integrity of the fuselage structure is not an absolute guarantee that an explosive decompression will not occur.

How the fuselage and tail plane stood the strain of it, God knows.

The wires inside the fuselage should be cleaned and regreased about once a fortnight.

Word Value for fuselage
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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