单词 | air-sailing |
释义 | > as lemmasair-sailing air-sailing n. now rare the action or practice of travelling in an aircraft, esp. a hot-air balloon or airship; chiefly attributive. ΚΠ 1854 Brit. Q. Rev. 1 Jan. 63 Roger Bacon..argued that..we might..‘sail upon the bosom of the air’... In whatever way we understand Friar Bacon's scheme of air-sailing, it was a prophetic and sagatious thought. 1897 Aeronaut. Ann. 92 The..care needed in making changes in an air-sailing machine. 1922 Times 28 Sept. 11/5 The gliding or air-sailing trials that have been carried out in Germany recently have shown it is feasible to construct aeroplanes with very light loading per square foot of surface. 1960 Göteborgs Universitets Årsskrift 66 249 Lilienthal writes..of the extreme care needed in making changes in an air-sailing machine. < as lemmas |
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