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Glider   Listen
noun
Glider  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, glides.
2.
A heavier-than-air flying machine similar to an airplane, but without an engine. It is typically towed to a high altitide by a powered aircraft and then glides to earth with no other source of power.
3.
A type of seat used on porches or in gardens, which is mounted on a frame so that it may glide forward and backward.





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"Glider" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a motorless aeroplane, or flying-machine, propelled by gravity and designed to carry a passenger through the air from a high point to a lower point some distance away. Flying in a glider is simply coasting down hill on the air, and is the most interesting and exciting sport imaginable. The style of glider described in this article is known as the "two-surface" or "double-decked" ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics
... the air—but St Paul prayed him down again. He slipped through the claws of the demons and fell headlong on the Forum at Rome, breaking his neck. The 'demons' may have been some primitive form of hot-air balloon, or a glider with which the magician attempted to rise into the wind; more probably, however, Simon threatened to ascend and made the attempt with apparatus as unsuitable as Bladud's wings, paying the inevitable penalty. Another version of the story gives St Peter instead ...
— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian
... nostrils opened like two hatchways, over a toothless mouth which was hidden by a moustache grizzled like the goatee springing from the short chin. At first glance one would have taken him for an art-worker, a wood engraver or a glider of saints' images, but on looking at him more closely, observing the eyes, round and grey, set close to the nose, almost crossed, and studying his solemn voice and obsequious manners, one asked oneself from what quite special kind of sacristy ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans
... to tell me." I spoke off-handedly. This was like hunting birds on the wing: too abrupt a movement of the glider, and the game ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various


Words linked to "Glider" :   sailplane, glide, heavier-than-air craft, hang glider


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