skewback

Skewback arches with cambered soffits to ground floor windows.

Door and window lintels are formed of skewback (flat) arches and not single stones or timbers.

An advanced type of propeller used on German Type 212 submarines is called a skewback propeller.

As in the scimitar blades used on some aircraft, the blade tips of a skewback propeller are swept back against the direction of rotation.

Permit and later submarines of this class had seven-bladed skewback screws, which reduced the problem of blade-rate, but reduced the submarines' top speed to 29-28 knots.

Ibstock Easy Arch This arch intends to display some of the vital qualities of the flat skewback but uses a limited number of special components.

Each span has four arches which are seated on the skewback stones of the abutments and piers separated by a steel shoe to help prevent rotting... Each arch has six sections and each section is a single tree.

Disston's "skewback saw", was developed around 1874, anecdotally based on a chalk design created on an office floor, and gained significant market share,though whether the design itself was superior, or the all round high quality of Disston's materials and production is not clear.