rudder
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
rudder (plural rudders)
- (nautical) An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot).
- (aeronautics) A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals.
- A riddle or sieve.
- (figurative) That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
- Hudibras
- For rhyme the rudder is of verses.
- Hudibras
- French: gouvernail, safran
- German: Ruder, Steuer, Steuerruder
- Italian: timone, timone orizzontale
- Portuguese: leme
- Russian: руль
- Spanish: timón
- German: Steuerruder, Ruder
- Italian: timone, timone di coda, timone di profondità, timone di direzione
- Portuguese: leme
- Russian: руль поворот
- Spanish: timón
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