Glider
['glaɪdə] or ['ɡlaɪdɚ]
Definition
(noun.) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces.
Checked by Jeannette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, glides.
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Examples
- Then, in 1900, Wilbur wrote to his father that he was going on a holiday to a place in North Carolina called Kitty Hawk, to try a glider. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They had worked with their gliders several years, and had made new calculations of the changing angles and currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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