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Side-slip   /saɪd-slɪp/   Listen
Side-slip

verb
1.
Slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis.





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"Side-slip" Quotes from Famous Books



... to find out whether Dumetrius had got it, before he tried to get it himself. He therefore confined himself to discussing with Dumetrius whether Monticellis would come again now that it was the fashion for a picture to be anything except a picture; and the future of Johns, with a side-slip into Buxton Knights. It was only when leaving that he added: "So they're not selling the Bolderby Old Crome, after all?" In sheer pride of racial superiority, as he had calculated would ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... said Bill. "She will want to know all about the plane, and when she gets through listening she will know 'most as much as you do. There is one thing I am afraid of, if I should fly, and that is spinning. Now if you begin to side-slip, either outward or inward, you are apt to commence to spin, and—well, there is usually a speedy and more or less painless end to ...
— Battling the Clouds - or, For a Comrade's Honor • Captain Frank Cobb
... was hardly surprising that Lady Gertrude had remained unchanged, expecting and requiring that the world should still run smoothly on—without even a side-slip!—in the same familiar groove as that to which she had always been accustomed. This being so, it was quite clear to her that Nan would require a considerable amount of tutelage before she was fit to be Roger's wife. And she was equally ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... Dick. "Another hundred yards like this, and even if we don't smash the differential or the chassis, Ropes will get side-slip of the brain. Half an hour of such driving must be equal to a week in ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson


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