air-ship

[air-ship]

verb (used with object)

air-shipped, air-shipping 

1. to send or ship via aircraft.

   to air-ship machine parts overseas.

Other Word Forms

• air-shippable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of air-ship¹

First recorded in 1950–1955

Example Sentences

The air-ship was still four miles off, and flying at an altitude of about 2000 feet.

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The monster air-ship left its hangar and returned to it on schedule time.

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The idea of building an air-ship had come to him while he lay dying with scurvy, as they thought, in a Confederate prison, and he had never abandoned it.

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On page 45, "air-ship" was replaced with "air ship".

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In this way the height of a mountain can be measured, and a man in a balloon or an air-ship can tell at what height he is sailing.

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Related Words

• aircraft 
• airplane 
• barge 
• boat 
• plane 
• ship 
• spacecraft 
• vessel