Winghold

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Stability of the wings in flying; a seeming purchase of the air made by a flying bird. countable, literary, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    A hold or grasp of the wing. countable, uncountable

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From wing + hold; modelled on foothold, toehold.

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