control stick

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   a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane

   Synonymsstickjoystick

   Broaderlever

Questions about control stick

What does control stick mean?

control stick means "a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane".

What is another word for control stick?

Close synonyms include stick, joystick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is control stick a common word?

control stick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.