noun
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a small wing, esp the bastard wing of a bird
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a small wing placed at the tip of the main wing of an aircraft and perpendicular to it designed to reduce the aircraft's vortex drag
Etymology
Origin of winglet
Example Sentences
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The portion of the 757’s wingtip that points up, the winglet, was snapped off, reported New York’s WNBC-TV.
From Washington Times • Feb. 8, 2023
The drone was mislabeled on a winglet as a Geran-2 Russian-made drone, Colonel Kulagin said.
From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2022
The FAA said the left winglet of the moving plane clipped the horizontal stabilizer of the other.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2022
Key to their concept appears to be the winglet in front of the bodywork, which has a series of smaller winglets on the top surface, and which also supports the mirror.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2022
All along the branches creeping, To their leafy beds of sleeping Go the blue-birds and the brown; Blackbird stoppeth now his clamor, And the little yellowhammer Droppeth head in winglet down.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
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