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Definition of Double-prop

1. Noun. A propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double-prop

Literary usage of Double-prop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Institutes of Natural Philosophy: Theoretical and Practical by William Enfield, Alexander Ewing, Samuel Webber (1811)
"... will move with twice the velocity of B ; and if A and B are equal, and the momentum of A is double of that of B, its velocity will also be double. PROP. ..."

2. Mining: A Journal Devoted to the Interests of Mines and Mining Students (1895)
"... the baulk end at the wide side ; also placing a double prop with cap between every pair of baulks, with an additional single prop and cap by the side. ..."

3. A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy: With Notes, Containing the by John Rowning (1758)
"... in two different Places, and therefore judges it to be double. Prop. V. An Object feen through a concave Lens appears nearer, ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"... the present instance, she fairly repulsed her suitor—clever, very clever man though he be. The opera, founded as it was on the double prop of Les deux ..."

5. Medieval Europe from 395 to 1270 by Charles Bémont, Gabriel Monod (1902)
"This double prop was taken from his unworthy successors whilst the various Carolingian kingdoms were assailed by the Slavs and Hungarians on the east, ..."

6. Old and New Unitarian Belief by John White Chadwick, ( (1894)
"... of God's character were the double prop of Channing's moral lever with which he fain would move the world. The latter was the subject of his discourse ..."

7. The Church and the Churches: Or, The Papacy and the Temporal Power : an by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, William Bernard MacCabe (1862)
"... most helpless Government in all Europe; and one, too, only able to maintain itself by the double prop of foreign Powers and their bayonets. ..."

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