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glider|ˈglaɪdə(r)|
Also 5–6 glydar(e, -er.
[f. glide v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who, or that which glides; also, that which aids in gliding. Also with up.
c1440Promp. Parv. 199/1 Glydare, serptor. 1530Palsgr. 225/2 Glydar a slyder, glancevr. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 94 Per. The glaunce into my heart did glide, Will. hey ho the glyder. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. A v b, The little Glysorye, or Glidere vp and downe. 1850H. H. Wilson tr. Rig-veda I. 219 The Maruts..are gliders (through the air).
b. An appendage that aids in gliding.
1873J. B. Pettigrew Anim. Loco. (1874) 170 The elytra or anterior wings are frequently employed as sustainers or gliders in flight.
c. (See quot. 1940.)
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 192/3 Unbreakable glass gliders... Makes furniture easily movable. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 379/1 Gliders, dome-shaped metal pieces fastened to the feet of chairs, settees, etc., in place of casters.
d. A runner (runner 13 b) for a curtain.
1957Archit. Rev. CXXII. 356/3 A concealed curtain track called ‘Silent Gliss’ and manufactured by Silent Gliss Ltd. will be shown; nylon gliders to which curtain may be attached direct or by means of hooks, runners or eyes, run in aluminium runners. 1961Lancet 5 Aug. 297/2 Typical cubicle equipment, comprising aluminium tube and curtain-rail with nylon gliders.
2. Aeronaut.
a. An engineless aeroplane.
1897Aeronaut. Ann. 144, I made my first trials with a soaring machine in the summer of '95... It is exceedingly difficult to make a glider with one surface only which will sail properly. 1903Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 6/7 The longitudinal stability of aerial gliders. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay iii. i. 208, I was developing a glider into a flyer. 1931Daily Tel. 6 Jan. 12/4 [He] had a leg and an arm broken when his glider crashed. 1950Engineering 10 Feb. 158/1 The glider had the advantage of being able to land with great accuracy. 1965‘Sergeant’ & Watson Gliding Bk. iv. 50 The upward flow is called an ‘anabatic’ wind and it is occasionally strong enough to support a glider in flight.
b. One who glides or is an expert in gliding.
1910C. C. Turner Aerial Navig. xx. 253 It will be well to take the experiences of the great gliders in proper order, beginning with Lilienthal. 1960C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane 197 As to the ‘tower-jumpers’ of history,..there is happily no telling who was the first to deflect himself from the vertical sufficiently to earn the title of first ‘flier’ or ‘glider’ in history.
3. (See quot. 1939.) U.S.
1932Hadley Co., Springfield, Mass., Advt. July, Junior Gliders! 1939Webster Add., Glider, a porch swing with cushioned seat or couch suspended by links from an upright framework. 1969P. Highsmith Tremor of Forgery xxiv. 225 Adams's terrace faced the gulf and had a glider, table and chairs.
4. attrib. and Comb., as glider air-train (see quot.); glider bomb = glide bomb (s.v. glide n. 6); glider-borne a., of troops, etc.: carried by glider; glider train = glider air-train; glider-tug, a powered aircraft that tows gliders.
1935C. G. Burge Compl. Bk. Aviation 377/1 Glider ‘air train’, an ‘air train’ consists of an aeroplane attached to which are one or more gliders in tow.
1944Times 24 Jan. 2/4 The enemy pressed home determined attacks on the convoy with glider bombs. 1945W. Ley Rockets 272 There is no technological similarity between the radio-controlled glider bomb and the jet-propelled flying bomb V-1.
1942Air News Oct. 27/2 Existing equipment could drop glider-borne troops. 1946G. Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead xii. 157 Combined use of parachute troops, glider-borne troops, anti-flak fighters and bombers.
1940Aeronautics Nov. 44/3 Flight tests have shown that more than one glider can be towed by an aeroplane, so that a glider train is not out of question.
1944Jane's All World's Aircraft 1943–44 43a/2 The principal glider-tug..is capable of towing up to three gliders at a time. |