aerolite
Americannoun
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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
Buried a yard deep in the ground, it was the most massive aerolite ever turned up in that State.*
From Time Magazine Archive
After a time, down came the hen-bird, like a fiery aerolite from the sky, upon the very spot where she had built her nest, so rapidly, as almost to escape observation.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The Susquehanna's bowsprit had been snapped off, in all probability, by some sudden squall, or, what was still more likely, some little aerolite had struck it and frightened the crew into fits.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
But later on it was discovered that the observers had been deceived in the body, and that what they had seen was an aerolite.
From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules
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