winghold
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From wing + hold; modelled on foothold, toehold.
Noun
[edit]winghold (countable and uncountable, plural wingholds)
- (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.
- A hold or grasp of the wing.