[
US
/ˈɹədɝ/
]
[ UK /ɹˈʌdɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈʌdɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes
- (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel
How To Use rudder In A Sentence
- The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. Saunterings
- And a rudderless ship is ill suited to the task. Times, Sunday Times
- In its original form, this involved saints like Columba taking to his coracle (that bobbing teacup of a leather boat, without rudder or oars), trusting the waves to carry him wherever they might.
- Then he arose and clomb the mast to see an there were any escape from that strait; and he would have loosed the sails; but the wind redoubled upon the ship and whirled her round thrice and drave her backwards; whereupon her rudder brake and she fell off towards a high mountain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- IAI and Cyclone Aviation Products Ltd in Carmiel manufacture the ventral fins, rudders, horizontal stabilisers and engine access doors.
- But problems with the rudders in his self-built craft meant that he had to stop after nine hours. Times, Sunday Times
- The rudder blade is - balance, double plate(Sentence dictionary), stream - line type. Able to turn to 350 rudder angle side.
- Stubborn had survived one of the worst attacks of the war, despite the loss of her aft hydroplanes and rudder, and had carried out the deepest-ever dive at the time, to an estimated 165m!
- Flight Controls Ailerons, rudder and elevator driven by twin hydraulic servo-actuators, and push-pull rod linkage.
- Lucas found that neither the gyrocompass nor the rudder angle indicator worked. The Attack on the Liberty