Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A device equipped with sharp teeth and towed alongside a ship to cut the mooring cables of submerged mines.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From para- + vane (Wiktionary)
- From its having vanes to keep it at a constant depth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She gets ousted on "paravane," after wrangling with it for several awkward moments.”
“A paravane is made up of a strong steel hawser (rope) that serves as a fender, and of two razor-edged blades that serve to cut the mine-moorings free.”
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
“Dragging a paravane through the water made the ship go slow.”
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
“The only safeguard a ship could carry was a paravane.”
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
“A paravane makes contact with an explosive mine, and it is blown up: the paravane is destroyed, but the ship itself is safe because it has been destroyed.”
“The sea yielded futtock shrouds, euphroes, baggywrinkles, and paravane skegs.”
“The previously eliminated favorite Neetu Chandak is invited back on stage, due to the "ambiguous answers" she was given to her repeated questions about the origins of "paravane.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paravane’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Go Fly a Kite
glider, motor glider, sailplane, autogiro, autogyro, parafoil, parasail, paravane, water kite, box kite, barrage balloon, tethered aerostat and 22 more...
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