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What is a propeller?

What is a propeller? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who, or that which, propels.
  2. A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.
  3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
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The propeller or the jet engine of an aircraft pushes air backwards to propel the aircraft forward.
The second person who died was the guy organizing the wind machine, which was a propeller from an old Russian plane.
Turbine generators here wind down, the emergency system to protect the nuclear reactors from overload kicks in, and the propeller shaft stops.
These aircraft were pulled into the air nose first by a large propeller and when airborne would level out into horizontal flight.
Behind the cross, crude propeller blades on whirligigs made by local artist R A Miller and planted on Windy Hill, spin and twirl on gusty days.
Once airborne the rear-mounted propeller pushes the craft along and the unpowered main rotor spins to give the craft lift.

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