parachute

An apparatus used to retard free fall from an aircraft, consisting of a light, usually hemispherical canopy attached by cords to a harness and worn or stored folded until deployed in descent.

Any of various similar unpowered devices that are used for retarding free-speeding or free-falling motion.

To drop (supplies or troops, for example) by means of a parachute.

To descend by means of a parachute.

To descend by or as if by the aid of a parachute.

An apparatus, usually of an umbrella shape, 20 or 30 feet in diameter, carried in a balloon, that the aëronaut may by its aid drop to the ground without sustaining injury.

A safety-cage (which see).

In zoology, same as patagium.

A broad-brimmed hat worn by women toward the close of the eighteenth century.

A large funnel of tinned copper set in the skimming-vat of a brewery, the mouth on a level with the surface of the beer, used to receive and carry off the yeast which is skimmed into it by means of a plank paddle.