The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fairing \Fair"ing\, n.
A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
--Gay.
Fairing box, a box receiving savings or small sums of
money.
--Hannah More.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"piece added for streamlining purposes," 1865, from fair (v.) a ship-building word meaning "to make 'fair' or level, adjust, make regular, correct curvatures," from fair (adj.).
Wiktionary
n. A structure on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag vb. (present participle of fair English)
Usage examples of "fairing".
The fairing for the towed array extended longitudinally aft from the leading edge of the sail to the stern.
His hands reach up to touch a smooth underbelly, an epoxide canard, the fairing of a downward-gazing radar.
Carefully sculpted scutes in front of that depression acted as baffles, protecting it and fairing the airflow.
Dick managed to get through the ill-spelled letter, and learned its instructions by heart, and then was rewarded with a home-made flakey cake, out of the big basket, that was better than all the fairings they had left behind.
The Victor was still two kilometers off Indy’s port beam, but through the magnification inherent in the ship optical sensory feed, the immense vessel loomed like a passing cliff face, with sponsons, barbettes, field projector arrays, and fairings turning hull metal into a landscape of faceted surfaces and complex topographies, with masts like forest giants, with gun ports grinning down her gundeck modules like bared teeth.
Stencil had kept his promise to Demivolt - had waited to see what Fairing would do.
Once, a swarm of dinner-plate-sized, solar-powered silicon butterflies blitzed past, zapping and sputtering and stealing any stray electrical cabling and discrete components in their path: a predatory Stuka the size of an eagle followed them, occasionally screaming down in a dive that ended with one of their number crumpled and shredded in the claws sprouting from its wheel fairings.
No more than eighty irals overall, she comprised three separate torpedo-shaped hulls, the bottom two closely joined by streamlined fairings to a smaller, topmost body with a cramped-looking flight bridge faired into its forward end.
However, within the past year there had been several raids on fairings with the same blood-bath result of a foray on a Wrecker port.
Have you forgotten the slaughter at Kyn Add and those other fairings where women and children were also struck down to serve some purpose we do not even yet know?
If these slayers are not put to the sword’s edge, there will be other fairings so used.
As soon as the storm blew out its force Ongal’s cruiser headed northwest to other clan fairings where the Rovers could claim kinship.
If these slayers are not put to the sword's edge, there will be other fairings so used.
As soon as the storm blew out its force Ongal's cruiser headed northwest to other clan fairings where the Rovers could claim kinship.
Morgause was ecstatic with the gifts and fairings Igraine had brought her.