Eddy kite

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• Eddy

  ·vt To collect as into an eddy. II. Eddy ·vi To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a cir...

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• eddy

  Sometimes used for the dead-water under a ship's counter. Also, the water that by some interruption ...

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• Kite

  ·noun Fig. : One who is rapacious. II. Kite ·noun The <<Belly>>. III. Kite ·noun The <<Brill>>. I...

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• Kite

  An unclean and keen-sighted bird of prey (Lev. 11:14; Deut. 14:13). The Hebrew word used, 'ayet, is ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• kite

  n. common English bird-name. The speciesin Australia are – – Allied Kite – – Milvus affanis, Gould....

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• kite

  a belly. Cumb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Kite

  (Heb. ayyah), a rapacious and keen-sighted bird of prey belonging to the hawk family. The Hebrew wor...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Eddy current

  ·add. ·- An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; — called also Fouca...

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• eddy-tide

  When the water runs back from some obstacle to the free passage of the stream. ...

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• eddy-wind

  That which is beat back, or returns, from a sail, bluff hill, or anything which impedes its passage;...

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• Box kite

  ·add. ·- A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rec...

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• Finbat kite

  ·add. ·- = Eddy kite. ...

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• kite flying

  An expression well known to mercantile men of limited means, or who are short of cash. It is a combi...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bowdy-kite

  a person with a bow'd belly. So bow or bow'd window. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• bumble-kite

  a bramble or black-berry. Cumb. So called also in Hampshire; perhaps a corruption of bramble kates. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• life-kite

  A contrivance for saving the lives of shipwrecked persons by forming a communication between the wre...

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• storm-kite

  A contrivance for sending a hawser from a stranded vessel to the shore. ...

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