flitter

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And he made an emphatic gesture that the windshield could not be opened while the flitter was air-borne But as he did so they glided down, and he caught a single good look at what was going on on the rock--a look which remained to haunt his dreams for long years to come.

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  1. intransitive verb To flutter.

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  • No? We also have mattocks and bow-saws in the flitter, and I'll instruct you on those if we need them. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
  • She was searching through the blackweed for the few nearly-ripe berries I zoomed over and landed the flitter, not caring that the front scraped an alder and the back squished down into a bog. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
  • Ryzk would monitor me all the time the flitter was away from the ship. —  Norton, Andre - Uncharted Stars (v1.0) (html).html
  • The churned ground passing under the flitter was a nightmare of broken ridges, knife-sharp pinnacles, and pitted holes. —  Norton, Andre - Uncharted Stars (v1.0) (html).html
  • There were more and more of these as the flitter dipped over the Black River, where even the sands were of that somber color. —  Norton, Andre - Uncharted Stars (v1.0) (html).html
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Frequentative of flit.

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  1. from Middle English flytteren, scatter in pieces.
  2. from flitter, v.
  3. apparently an attenuated form of flutter, q. v. Cf. flatter, flittermouse, etc
  4. from flit + -er.
 

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