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Volplane

//ˈvɒlpleɪn// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A steep, controlled dive, especially by an aircraft with the engine off.
Verb
  1. 1
    To perform a volplane.

    "1916, Wilfred Percy ("Billie") Nevill, letter, in 1991, Ruth Elwin Harris (editor), Billie: The Nevill Letters, 1914-1916, Julia Macrae, page 143, […] when well over the bosche lines & he volplaned home, just skimmed over our & the Bosche trenches, they all fired at him like sin, of course, and landed about 1000 yards back on a hill."

  2. 2
    To glide.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French vol plané (“gliding flight”).

Etymology 2

From French vol plané (“gliding flight”).

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