flyings

Noun

flying (countable and uncountable, plural flyings)

1. (countable) An act of flight.
   • "Flyings" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds" […]1993, John C. Greene, Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745, page 58
2. (uncountable) The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
   • His seconde hawke wexyd gery
     And was with flyenge wery.
     She had flowyn so oft,
     That on the rode loft
     She perkyd her to rest.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66–70
3. (uncountable) The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.

   Synonyms:

   foiling, hydrofoiling

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