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Air-ship   /ɛr-ʃɪp/   Listen
Air-ship

verb
1.
Transport (cargo) by air.  Synonyms: air-freight, airfreight.






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"Air-ship" Quotes from Famous Books



... the window of my hotel in Stuttgart, I watched a crowd before the Central railway station. Evidently something important was about to take place. What! Only the day previous all Stuttgart had strained its neck staring at a big Zeppelin air-ship. It was the week of the Gordon Bennett balloon race and every hotel, every lodging-house was full. It was also the Richard Strauss festival week, with the formal inauguration of the two magnificent opera-houses in the Schlossgarten. So it was not ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... being written, in August, 1909, another series of flights has been concluded at Fort Myer. They were successful in every way in fulfilling the government tests, and the Wrights' machine was purchased by the government for $30,000. Everywhere air-ship flights are being made successfully, and it is only a question of time until the aeroplane becomes a common means of conveyance. Wilbur Wright declares that it is already safer than the automobile, and it would seem that there is in store for man ...
— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson



Words linked to "Air-ship" :   air-freight, freight



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