"Ripcord" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Ripcord" Meaning

A ripcord is a cord or line, typically made of elastic material, attached to the parachute of an aircraft or other device to activate its deployment, especially when an emergency situation arises, severing the cord to deploy the parachute and prevent or end free fall.

"Ripcord" Examples

Ripcord Examples

Pronoun

When you pull on a cord that will activate a device or system, and you make it get ready to perform its function.

She pulled the ripcord on the parachute.

Verb

To pull on the ripcord of a parachute, parachute jumpers have to cut away from their main parachute and fly using a smaller one.

To avoid crashing, the pilot had to ripcord quickly.

Nautical

A device used to catch the sail and increase speed on some types of yachts.

Sailors must adjust the ripcord according to wind direction.

Medicine

Refers to sutures (stitches) that are either of sutures removed by a surgeon, or in cases of severe blood vessel tear, some surgeons also take out all the mediastinal and subcuticular portions of the sutures for preventing infection.

The surgeon had to remove the ripcord from the wound as a precaution.