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flying machines

flying machines is the plural of flying machine.

Meaning of flying machine

Noun

flying machine (plural flying machines)

  1. (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...1914 February 28, Henry Woodhouse, “Girdling the Globe by Motor-Driven Aircraft”, in Collier's, volume 52, number 24, page 13

Questions about flying machines

What is flying machines the plural of?
Flying machines is the plural of flying machine.

Words near flying machines in the dictionary

  1. flying lemurs
  2. flying like a bird
  3. flying lizard
  4. flying low
  5. flying machine
  6. flying machines
  7. flying mare
  8. flying mares
  9. flying meet
  10. flying meets
  11. flying mice

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