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zeppelin

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1900, from German Zeppelin , short for Zeppelinschiff "Zeppelin ship," after Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), German general who perfected its design. Compare blimp . Related: Zeppelinous .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Zeppelin was a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's ideas were first formulated in 1874 and developed in detail in 1893. They ...

Usage examples of zeppelin.

The Zeppelin captains tried to aim their bombs at factories, bridges and railways but often found it difficult to do so accurately and many bombs hit private houses.

Considering that the total number of Germans captured in the Cameroons is only equal to the number of civilians murdered or wounded in British towns by Zeppelin bombs, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds to the German Government, one begins to wonder whether Norden and his countrymen possess any sense of proportion.

We have already had a taste of this sort of reasoning when the royalties fled from Karlsruhe and when the murderers upon the sinking Zeppelin received the reward due to men who boast that they will not keep faith.

First of all Montgolfier, then balloonists who used gas and not hot air, then, at last, your Count Zeppelin.

With Kevin, they were getting heavily into Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent, and Bob Seger, and Bill started saving up for a Fender Stratocaster and an amp.

The vast, extended silver cigar was built externally on the ancient zeppelin pattern but with an industrial stasis generator and a pair of big mass repulsers where the gasbags had been back in the olden days.

We may pass over the crimes committed from a distance, so to speak, on unfortified towns, with fieldpieces, long-range guns, aeroplanes, and Zeppelins, merely noting that the Germans were the first to fire shells into the centre of towns indiscriminately.

James Cairns stood, huddled in a fur cloak, on the castle's ancient battlement and gazed at the ship as it slid across the sky from the east, a glowing zeppelin at least three hundred meters long.

And they both knew that whoever got there first would have the advantage, but there wasn't much in it: Lord Asriel's gyropters were faster than the zeppelins of the Consistorial Court, but they had farther to fly, and they were limited by the speed of their own zeppelin tanker.

Oh heckfire, ma'am, it was one'a them crop circle things, like on the cover'a that Led Zeppelin record.

Sailing through the air like a small Zeppelin, it scooped up Harum Scarum, then the ten Scares behind him, then the ten Scares behind them, snapping and swallowing, snapping and swallowing till not a Scare nor a Fraid Cat remained in the courtyard.

The Zeppelins and blimps of a later day owed much to the daring and gadgeteering of this tiny aeronaut.

But a German zeppelin had put paid to that and crippled my mother into the bargain.

The moment she was launched into the ladies' room he rushed back up, walked over to Zeppelin Tung who was near them.

I had flown down in the Count Von Zeppelin, at Papeete I would fly home in the Admiral Moffett, so I was forever junior and should keep quiet while my betters pontificated'.