Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A balloonist; an aëronaut.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun balloonist
  • noun A type of sail

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Examples

  • •Rousseau captures Ben Linus, who claims to be hot-air ballooner Henry Gale, and turns him over to Sayid.

    'Lost': When are we? 2009

  • Was that you pedalling around in your birthday suit on the old Schwinn ballooner decorated with crepe paper and glued-on Disney charactors?

    The Indignity of Summer: It's Always Dorkiest Before the Fall BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • I feel privileged to follow in the footsteps of pioneering ballooner Lunardi and hope that I rise to the challenge of helping the sport of ballooning to ‘take-off’, and enable more people to experience the magic of lighter than air aviation, comments Phil.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • November 3rd, 2005 at 3: 19 am game says: ballooner Jesuitized!

    Think Progress » Cohen’s Clarification: Not A Serious Matter 2005

  • With what an ease and majesty she comes along, scarcely dipping to the slight summer waves, while they on board notice that she has put out her long spinnaker boom, ready to hoist a great ballooner as soon as she is round the lightship and running home before the wind.

    Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

  • Some of the balloons, after being pelted at a fellow water ballooner, even flopped around on the grass, needing a second toss!

    Berks county news 2010

  • Unfortunately for Cooper, two brightly rounded nylon tips could be seen bobbing above the morning fog from the highway and she found herself waiting in line with another first-time ballooner, Tri City's Sharon Lozano.

    News Review - Top Stories CARA PALLONE The News-Review 2008

  • debt recovery tribunal ballooner quibble artfulness naked trusts?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting recent poll: 2004

  • ` ballooner 'for running off the wind in light weather -- a whacking big un, with a ` jack' as long as the bowsprit, and a yard as long as the lower-mast.

    For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

  • I'll look like an observation ballooner, or whatever you call 'em. "

    Tom Slade with the Boys Over There Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

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