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Sea gull

noun

Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs. Synonyms: gull, seagull.

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... two wings of an aeroplane at an angle of three to five degrees to each other is perhaps the oldest way of securing lateral balance. This way readily occurs to anyone who watches a sea gull soaring. The theory of the dihedral angle is that when one wing is lifted by a gust of wind, the air is spilled from under it; while the other wing, being correspondingly depressed, presents a greater resistance to the gust and is lifted restoring the balance. A fixed angle ...

— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell

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... broke the stillness save a remote murmuring, until a solitary sea gull rose in the air and circled directly over the tower, uttering its mournful and unmusical cry. Automatically to my mind sprang the ...

— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

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Words linked to "Sea gull" : cob, black-backed gull, kittiwake, herring gull, mew gull, Larus marinus, blackcap, pewit, laughing gull, Larus argentatus, sea mew, Pagophila eburnea, ivory gull, Larus ridibundus, great black-backed gull, mew, Larus canus, pewit gull, larid