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nacelle
[a. F. nacelle:—late L. nāvicella (naucella), dim. of nāvis a ship.]
†1. A small boat. Obs. rare—1.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 141/1 The quene of thys contree wente for to playe on the ryuage of the see and byheld thys lytyl nacelle and the chyld therein.
2. [after the same uses in Fr.]
a. The basket or gondola of a balloon or airship.
1901New Penny Mag. XII. 440 The ‘nacelle’, or basket, from which..the aeronaut directs his operations. 1909Aero 13 July 117/2 The dirigible..has a screw at either end of the nacelle or cradle. 1932Times 27 May 13/7 The balloon with which the first ascent was made will be used, but a new nacelle will be constructed.
b. The cockpit of an aeroplane; hence, any streamlined structure on an aeroplane for housing something, esp. an engine.
1914Scotsman 8 Sept. 2/7 (Advt.), The Henry Farman seaplane is a biplane of the pusher type... The pilot and passenger have comfortable quarters in a nacelle which is built out from the front of the machine. 1915War Illustr. 10 July 494/2 The machine was apparently a gun-carrying ‘pusher’ biplane of the type in which the gunman sits right out in the nose of the boat-shaped body—or ‘nacelle’. 1918‘Avion’ Aeroplanes & Aero Engines v. 59 The engine, tanks, crew, controls, and instruments are accommodated in a body known as the ‘nacelle’, above which the centre section [of the upper wing] is erected in the usual way. 1920Blackw. Mag. Feb. 195/1 The spirit was not entering the tank, but spilling over the sides on to the floor of the nacelle. 1928C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station i. 56 They could seat two persons in the covered-in nacelle, with the pilot in front. 1935Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXIX. 267 The full anti-drag rings and nacelle cowls merge into the wing. 1943W. L. Cowley Aerodynamics of Aeroplane iii. 53 The engine with a tractor propellor is sometimes placed..in the nose of nacelles or egg-shaped bodies out on the wings. 1973E. Arnold Proving Ground xxix. 309 The planes..upended to show the twin nacelles of P-38s.
c. A similarly shaped structure on or in a motor vehicle.
1959Motor 3 June 603/3 The furnishings belong to the polished walnut school, upon which is superimposed a hooded crackle-finish nacelle in front of the driver containing a full but oddly-framed set of instruments. 1967E. Rudinger Consumer's Car Gloss. (ed. 2) 71 Nacelle,..sometimes used to describe the moulding surrounding a car's lights or dashboard instruments. 1969Practical Motorist Nov. 271/1 Instrumentation is restricted to an oblong speedometer with a small rev-counter perched atop the facia in a separate nacelle. 1970Daily Tel. 7 Apr. 3/1 The Lotus 72's radiator has been moved from the nose and replaced by two smaller radiators mounted in nacelles on the sides of the car. |