paravanes
Meaning of paravanes
plural noun
a device towed behind a boat at a depth regulated by its vanes or planes, so that the cable to which it is attached can cut the moorings of submerged mines.
early 20th century: from para-2 ‘protecting’ + vane.
Information about paravanes
- It is a name.
- The singular form of paravanes is: paravane.
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Hyphenation of paravanes
par-a-vanes
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- paravanes is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with paravanes
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