PARACHUTE

I. noun see: chute Date: 1785 a device for slowing the descent of a person or object through the air that consists of a fabric canopy beneath which the person or object is suspended, patagium , a device or structure suggestive of a ~ in form, use, or operation, parachutic adjective II. verb (-chuted; -chuting) Date: 1809 transitive verb to convey by means of a ~, intransitive verb to descend by means of a ~