air-ship
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- air-shippable adjective
Etymology
Origin of air-ship
First recorded in 1950–1955
Example Sentences
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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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So the large fan or screw propeller on an air-ship drives the air backward, and the air reacts and drives the ship forward.
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