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winghold

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English

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Etymology

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From wing +‎ hold; modelled on foothold, toehold.

Noun

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winghold (countable and uncountable, plural wingholds)

  1. (literary) Stability of the wings in flying; a seeming purchase of the air made by a flying bird.
    • 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 39:
      Swerving and twisting away from the misty lower air, he rises to the first faint warmth of sun, feels delicately for winghold on the sheer fall of sky.
  2. A hold or grasp of the wing.








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