wing-tip
Example Sentences
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Find a window seat with a nicely framed wing-tip view against soulful clouds.
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2015
Their target won't be some old, slow tubs anchored at Battleship Row or 200 P-40s and Brewster Buffaloes at Clark and Hickam Fields lined up wing-tip to wing-tip in long straight rows.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014
Turning the wing-tip nut on the top of the scarificator lowered, by means of a yoke, the bottom of the scarificator that was fitted by grooves into the top.
From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Appel, Toby
Aileron—A controlling surface, usually situated at the wing-tip, the operation of which turns an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis; causes an aeroplane to tilt sideways.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by Barber, H. (Horatio)
The waiting crowd streamed across to the machine from whose wing-tip flares, now dull and red, still dropped hot drops of liquid.
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul
