trimotor
noun
an airplane or other vehicle that has three motors.
trimotored
-
a word derived from
trimotor.
Example Sentences
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A giant, trimotored Junkers low-wing monoplane, with swastikas gleaming on tail, roared down to Teheran airport, inaugurating Lufthansa's new commercial airline between isolated, mountainous Iran and the Near East and Europe.
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The only U. S. plane on show was a trimotored Ford.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lightning charges collected on the wireless antennae, shocked the radio operator into a faint, but the big trimotored ship roared safely on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane for a thorough inspection of European air activities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spread out over the waspish little ship in which Bleriot first flew across the English Channel, stood the huge trimotored plane in which Commander Richard E. Byrd hopes to conquer the Antarctic.
From Time Magazine Archive
