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wingholds

wingholds is the plural of winghold.

Meaning of winghold

Noun

winghold (countable and uncountable, plural wingholds)

  1. (literary) Stability of the wings in flying; a seeming purchase of the air made by a flying bird.
    • Swerving and twisting away from the misty lower air, he rises to the first faint warmth of sun, feels delicately for winghold on the sheer fall of sky.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 39
  2. A hold or grasp of the wing.

Questions about wingholds

What is wingholds the plural of?
Wingholds is the plural of winghold.

Words near wingholds in the dictionary

  1. winghead
  2. winghead shark
  3. winghead sharks
  4. wingheads
  5. winghold
  6. wingholds
  7. wingier
  8. wingies
  9. wingiest
  10. winging
  11. winging it

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