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- noun Plural form of
propellor .
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Examples
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The manufacture of aeroplane engines and propellors is a very complex problem, involving new sources of raw material and a heavy outlay for machine tools.
Canada At War 1940
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There were others without the propellers; [standardized 'propellors']
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One is that it would be [was 'would me'] propellers [standardized 'propellors'] ripping into the summer night
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Prof Frankel's research, carried out with the University of Birmingham, found that salmonella bacteria are able to use their flagella - the stringy "propellors" designed to aid their movement - to grip salad leaves and contaminate them.
Signs of the Times 2008
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On some were propellers [standardized 'propellors']. the slim shafts with their little propellerlike [standardized
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There are a number of other interesting contraptions in the gallery, several of which incorporate propellors in the style of a swamp airboat (the last one at the link uses a rotary lawnmower blade mounted on an inflated innertube!)
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As if glory is a lamp dangling just beyond the blades of the propellors.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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There are no wheels to churn up the ground, and no propellors to injure any marine creatures.
Landspeeder Antigravity Vehicle Prototype | SciFi UK Review 2008
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There are no wheels to churn up the ground, and no propellors to injure any marine creatures.
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As if glory is a lamp dangling just beyond the blades of the propellors.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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