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Definition of Rudders
1. rudder [n] - See also: rudder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rudders
Literary usage of Rudders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"Pivoted rudders, as shown at i, Figures 85, 198, 209, 216,, and 229, ...
Flexible rudders, of the type illustrated in Figure 84, which is taken from the ..."
2. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"HORIZONTAL rudders Horizontal rudders, or elevators, usually control not only
... TWISTING rudders rudders of the type illustrated at h in Figure 222 are in ..."
3. A Manual of Naval Architecture for Use of Officers of the Royal Navy by William Henry White (1900)
"rudders so placed are very liable to damage or derangement from collision or
blows of the sea. If put over to a good angle they must cause a considerable ..."
4. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"Pivoted rudders, as shown at i, Figures 85, 198, 209, 216,, and 229, ...
Flexible rudders, of the type illustrated in Figure 84, which is taken from the ..."
5. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Thy sails, and rudders too, my will demands*: Such be the test, thy boasted truth
to try, Each other test despised, I fixt deny. And has my Regent sued two ..."
6. How to Fly by Archie Frederick Collins (1917)
"The Direction rudders of Monoplanes.—Direction planes are of course always set
... Some rudders are made with one plane only, while others are formed of two ..."
7. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (1902)
"IN attempting to bring before the members of this Institution a few considerations
relative to rudders and the steering of vessels, it has seemed desirable ..."
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