aerolite
Americannoun
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Buried a yard deep in the ground, it was the most massive aerolite ever turned up in that State.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Harvey Harlow Nininger, Colorado meteorite expert, revealed discovery of a 700-lb. aerolite by a farmer near Hugoton, Kans.
From Time Magazine Archive
M. Tissot, the astronomer, had, at half-past ten the previous night, observed through the 40-inch telescope of the Nice observatory a body which seemed a tiny planet or aerolite of abnormal size.
From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
If a philosopher that way had come, He would have seized the waif with great delight, And honored it as an aerolite.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
But already I had shot away on the steepest glide that I dared to attempt, my engine still full on, the flying propeller and the force of gravity shooting me downwards like an aerolite.
From Tales of Terror and Mystery by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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