SPAD

/ spæd /

acronym for

1. signal passed at danger: an incident in which a train goes through a red light

Example Sentences

Swift flying and a rapid climber, it has won for itself the title of The German Spad.

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Guynemer and the other two were coming nearer, when the Spad dropped beneath its adversary and fired upwards.

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But the Spad partly caught up with him and the aërial circling began anew, while two other Spads appeared—a pack after a deer.

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For this reason we selected this plant to duplicate the French Spad plane, the story of which undertaking will be told further on.

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On September 12, 1917, we received from the aviation experts abroad a sample of the French Spad.

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