Definitions for twin-screw

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Spelling: [twin-skroo]
IPA: /ˈtwɪnˈskru/

Twin-Screw is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 340 anagrams from letters in twin-screw (-ceinrstww).

Definitions for twin-screw

adjective

  1. (of a vessel) having two screw propellers, which usually revolve in opposite directions.

Origin of twin-screw

First recorded in 1860-65

Examples for twin-screw

If he will not look with his whole being at a twin-screw steamer, he will not see it.

In twin-screw boats there are two distinct engines, one for each propeller.

They were twin-screw steamers, and were provided with every safety device known at the time.

On this little machine the twin-screw propellers, 8-1/2 feet in diameter, sweep practically the whole width of the machine.

The best steamers, therefore, are fitted with the twin-screw propeller.

Not so the twin-screw ship; for on such ships the screws can be used for steering as well as propelling.

The twin-screw liner, Fruitlands,—do you really want the first?

They were the first twin-screw steamers, and were provided with the system of forced draught for the engines.

The Orient Line has the Ophir, a twin-screw ship, about five hundred feet long, and others nearly as large.

Grau closed in and strove to ram, but the Cochrane was a twin-screw steamer, and was manipulated well.

Word Value for twin-screw
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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