Definition of "turboshaft" []

• A gas turbine engine that powers a rotating cylindrical shaft, as to a pump or a helicopter rotor. (noun)

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• "The Longbow looked like a mosquito, with its slightly dipped rotors and stubby wings set against a long, slender body, a large General Electric T700-GE-701 turboshaft engine mounted high on each side of the fuselage."
• "G ULL EMEC ASCENDEDthe turboshaft of Sentok Nor, the Cardassian-engineered space station that glittered in the sky above Betazed."
• "Grabbing Soloman by the arm, Gold pulled the Bynar close to him and hurled them both into the yawning darkness of the turboshaft."