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A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.

A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.

m. -- Pistol shot. (a) The discharge of a pistol. (b) The distance to which a pistol can propel a ball.

complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.

The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.

bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Porcupine wood (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; -- so called beca…

A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ore or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging. "[The] propulsive movement of the verse." Coleridge.

To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion. Livingstone.

One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.

A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.

Specifically, of horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body. Stillman (The Horse in Motion).

t of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water. Behoves him now both sail and oar. Milton.

A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.