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ˈtri-ˌmotored, a.
Also trimotored.
[f. tri- + motor n. + -ed2.]
Of an aeroplane: fitted with three engines.
1927Times (Weekly ed.) 9 June 632/3 Tri-motored aeroplanes capable of landing on the water..were essential. 1929Sat. Even. Post 7 Dec. 63/1 The giant tri⁓motored Ford planes of this line. 1968Miller & Sawers Technical Devel. Mod. Aviation ii. 33 The totals..may suggest the general level of operating costs of the tri⁓motored aircraft in the United States in 1932–33. 1980R. Butler Blood-Red Sun at Noon (1981) i. ii. 28 One of the big tri-motored Junkers. |