Other forms: fuselages
The fuselage is the main tube-shaped body of an aircraft. A cracked fuselage, the fuselage broke, along the fuselage.
It is pressurised in flight and the difference in pressure is what stresses it, which is why cabins are round — corners concentrate stress and the early square windows of the Comet caused fatal failures. The French word comes from a spindle shape.
1nounfuselageThe main body of an aircraft.
“The passengers escaped through a hole in the fuselage after the crash landing.”
fuselage is a part of an aircraft.
French fuselage comes from fuselé, spindle-shaped, from Latin fusus, a spindle.
Latin
fūsus — spindle, spinning wheel
French
fuselage
English, today
fuselage
Built from
Borrowed from French fuselage. Ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”). For the meaning development, compare rocket, ultimately from rukkô (“spinning wheel, distaff”) (whence also rock (“distaff, the flax or wool on a distaff”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA