Crossword clues for winging
winging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wing \Wing\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winged; p. pr. & vb. n. Winging.]
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To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
Who heaves old ocean, and whowings the storms.
--Pope.Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours.
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To supply with wings or sidepieces.
The main battle, whose puissance on either side Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
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To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some withered bough.
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To move through in flight; to fly through.
There's not an arrow wings the sky But fancy turns its point to him.
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To cut off the wings of or to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird; also, [fig.] to wound the arm of a person.
To wing a flight, to exert the power of flying; to fly.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of wing English)
Wikipedia
Winging may refer to:
- Scapula winging, a condition in which the medial border of a person's scapula is abnormally positioned outward and backward
- Winging, a type of Aerodynamic Flight by which an object moves either through the air by using surfaces to produce lift
Usage examples of "winging".
Of a sudden he took to the air, soaring up above the ship, winging out and away from the circle of destruction its tail flames had caused as it rode those in for their landing.
She went from the village to the decaying cottage that belonged to her spy, uncaged her birds, and sent them winging back into the Wilderun.
Wing Riders soared into view out of the eastern horizon, winging for the airship across clear skies and over placid waters.
More natives were winging in at every moment, landing at a remove from the scatter of merchandise and loping forward curiously.
She was winging back from there, watching cows being driven out to pasture far below in the first farms she came to, when something glinted in the sky, over to her left, in the north.
Corkoran had hardly reached the bottom of the ladder before the pigeons were gone, too, winging painfully away to Derkholm.
They passed underneath Callette, winging the other way, and shortly after that under five griffin strangers flying after her.
For the first time in a thousand years the Icarii flew for Tencendor rather than just winging their way about the Icescarp Alps or the Avarinheim.
The snow eagle spent the nights perched in the rafters of the Great Hall, but in the days it soared far above the Urqhart Hills, catching mice and rabbits, sometimes winging south and west on strange errands for Axis.
Indeed, a pale silver creature had lifted from behind the line of mounted men and was winging its way towards them.
The Strike Force already winging its way over the Urqhart Hills towards Sigholt, Axis led the mounted section of his command south towards the entrance to HoldHard Pass.
Vogel was winging swiftly toward the office, disbelief and horror on his face.