airstrip

[ air-strip ]

/ ˈɛərˌstrɪp /

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noun

a small landing field having only one runway.

a temporary or auxiliary aircraft runway.

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Origin of airstrip

First recorded in 1940–45; air¹ + strip²

Words nearby airstrip

air sprayer, air spring, air station, airstream, air strike, airstrip, air-superiority, air switch, air syringe, air system, airt

How to use airstrip in a sentence

A straight 24-hour push brought them from the summit down to the airstrip at the 7,300-foot Kahiltna base camp.
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Our puddle-jumper lands on a small airstrip lined with solar panels.
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Often we’d spend longs days at the Toledo Airport, a tiny municipal airstrip where he and his friends would parachute out of small, dubious, single-engined airplanes while I would pack parachutes.
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But as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed|Terry Greene Sterling|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The Cessna landed like a feather on Bettles Field, a long, flat airstrip built by the Navy during World War II.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed|Terry Greene Sterling|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Growing up in Lukla, Pasang watched planes land at the airstrip near her village.
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It was late 1977 when the DC-3 lowered its landing gear onto a jungle airstrip, one of dozens on the Caribbean side of Colombia.
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Her body had been found along an abandoned airstrip access road just 30 yards from her host family's home.
7 Student Travel Nightmares|Constantino Diaz-Duran|May 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The engineer tapped on the microphone, and the tap, greatly amplified, reverberated across the airstrip.
The Flaming Mountain|Harold Leland Goodwin
Then the firing area was passed and the jeep sped along next to the miles-long black, oiled path of the airstrip.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery|Harold Leland Goodwin
At Umiat (June 25, 1952), ptarmigan were using seven dusting pits on the shoulder of the airstrip.
Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska|James W. Bee
There, on the proving ground, they watched a big transport-plane land on a makeshift airstrip.
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He saw several flocks of ducks including one containing "about a dozen ducks" at ponds along a roadway and at an airstrip.
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British Dictionary definitions for airstrip

airstrip

/ (ˈɛəˌstrɪp) /

noun

a cleared area for the landing and taking off of aircraft; runwayAlso called: landing strip

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