flying machine

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flying machine

noun flying machines

archaic Early term for an aircraft; a machine for flying in (gerund); a machine that flies (participial adjective). "Around the World in Eighty Days" once had so much appeal to the imagination that Jules Verne wrote a novel about it. The latest proposal is to girdle the globe in three months in a flying machine. The practicability of such a flight is here discussed by an expert. Mr. Woodhouse is a member of the A

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noun archaic: aircraft

日本語	飛行機 hikōki, 飛行器 hikōki, 空中飛行機 kūchū hikōki, 空中飛行器 kūchū hikōki

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@misc{flying_machine_2026,
  title = {flying machine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flying%20machine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}