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moonraker
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n. 1 Someone from Wiltshire. (After a story in which some Wiltshire peasants, seeing the reflection of the moon in a pool, tried to rake it out.) 2 (context nautical English) A small, light sail located high on a mast (above the skysail) and used for speed. ...
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Moonraker (1979) is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series , and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond . The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert , it co-stars Lois Chiles , Michael Lonsdale ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Moonraker \Moon"rak`er\, n. (Naut.) Same as Moonsail .
Usage examples of moonraker.
This Moonraker plan is obviously the most important thing happening in England.
The Minister of Supply had to agree, but he knows as well as you or I that, whatever the facts, it would be a colossal victory for the Russians to sabotage the Moonraker on the eve of her practice shoot.
Bond a full five minutes to shake off his depression and realize that Ronnie Vallance was relieved to see him, that he was not interested in inter-departmental jealousies and that he was only looking to Bond to protect the Moonraker and get one of his best officers out of what might be a bad mess.
In their dealings with him they had found him a dedicated man, completely bound up in the Moonraker, living for nothing but its success, driving his men to the limit, fighting for priorities in material with other departments, goading the Ministry of Supply into clearing his requirements at Cabinet level.
If they were open now, you would see the nose of the Moonraker just protruding above the level of the wall.
I was saying to our friend the Commander that when we fire the Moonraker it will be like committing murder.
Would he be far wrong, wondered Bond, if he guessed that, forgetting the Moonraker, those were also the dominant thoughts inside forty-nine other heads?
From the red dot near Dover which was the site of the Moonraker, arcs showing the range in, ten-mile intervals had been drawn up the map.
And now, while she spied and probed and sniffed the wind around Drax for her Chief in London, she was passionately concerned with the success of the Moonraker and had become as dedicated to its service as anyone else on the site.
Tomorrow morning the site will be opened again until midday for a final check and from that moment, except for the gyro settings, the Moonraker will be ready to go.
Now that Bond had caught the magic and the tension of the Moonraker the facts of the hysterical shooting seemed more reasonable.
Not with the death of Tallon and Bartsch, not with the egregious Krebs, but only with the protection of the whole Moonraker project from its possible enemies.
The main thing is that the Moonraker looks as safe as the Crown Jewels, and probably safer.
And anyway there was nothing he could do about the Moonraker for another hour.
It was crazy to worry about a few lunatics so long as the Moonraker was out of danger.