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Suspended porch piece
Answer for the clue "Suspended porch piece ", 6 letters:
glider
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Word definitions for glider in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "person or thing that glides," agent noun from glide . Meaning "motorless airplane" is c.1897.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glider \Glid"er\, n. One who, or that which, glides. a heavier-than-air flying machine similar to an airplane, but without an engine. It is typically towed to a high altitide by a powered aircraft and then glides to earth with no other source of power. ...
Usage examples of glider.
After just a short amount of time, two gliders appeared in the sky and Beel froze in his steps.
Torgo knelt before the remaining glider and Beel watched what he was doing as well as studied the man.
Roth walked over to the glider and Beel hurried to climb on behind him.
Roth and Beel loaded their backpacks, each bestowed her with a hug, shared some parting words, and then boarded their glider and took off, leaving Syra standing alone in the valley.
She gently lowers herself onto the cushions of the porch glider and startles Eccles by kicking up her legs as, with a squeak and sharp sway, the glider takes her weight.
When her mother got home from work that afternoon Sophie was sitting in the glider, pondering the possible connection between the philosophy course and Hilde Moller Knag, who would not be getting a birthday card from her father.
Baedecker stood and took the weight of the glider on his shoulder at the apex of the metal triangle while Lude held the keel parallel to the ground.
As the giant troop-carrying gliders soared in, I seized them with psychokinesis, or what-have you, and dunked them one by one in the river.
Tia had tears in her eyes when Rog walked them to her glider after the brief but moving ceremony.
Remember the Tirrans possessed cloth-wing gliders and animated bird carcasses.
Ailim had bespelled the glider to return to the Residence as soon as she stepped from the vehicle.
Gliders are trying to progress to the semifinals for the playoffs, and the teams challenging them are much harder to beat.
A glider train from Mare Erythraeum brought in several huge crates of machinery, cut-stone masonry for building a wall, a shipful of new personnel, and a real rarity: lumber, cut from the first Earth-trees to be grown on Mars.
It all made me want to move to a small town in Indiana and start a little factory where I could make buggy whips, stereopticons, and hoop skirts, and sit in the glider on the porch on the summer evenings and hear the children at play and finally go inside and, by gas light, read that Admiral Dewey had been placed in command of the fleet.
Indiana and start a little factory where I could make buggy whips, stereopticons, and hoop skirts, and sit in the glider on the porch on the summer evenings and hear the children at play and finally go inside and, by gas light, read that Admiral Dewey had been placed in command of the fleet.