Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In brewing and distilling, a horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Brewing) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun brewing A
horizontal vane revolving over the surface ofwort in acooler , so as to produce acircular current in theliquor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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George Bush was busy protecting us from Mexican flighter pilots during the same period.
Kerry Steven Barnes 2008
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He was an American, a doctor, and she was grateful for the cheerful boyish enthusiasm he had shown and the friendly way he had helped her, a nervous first-flighter, answering all her questions with his lopsided grin.
Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982
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Warde was the right sort, a clinker, a first flighter.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908
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Warde was the right sort, a clinker, a first flighter.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908
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It is there that I, intent on my own investigations, have passed and re-passed a hundred times the worn leonine face, white as the snow beneath him, furrowed with wrinkles like the seams and gashes upon the North Cape; the nervous hand, integrally a part of the mechanism of his flighter; and above all, the wonderful lambent eyes turned to the zenith.
Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Thus equipped, he summons Herrera and Tinsley, his pupils, to the final demonstration as calmly as though he were ordering his flighter for some mid-day journey to Marseilles.
Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900
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If the plane gets hijacked, I think the job of the flighter planes are to shoot that bitch down before it flies into something.
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He said he's frequently contacted by military personnel and has a display in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center that includes pictures of Ohio State memorabilia in jet flighter planes, flags that have been flown overseas and battalion coins.
unknown title 2009
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He said he's frequently contacted by military personnel and has a display in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center that includes pictures of Ohio State memorabilia in jet flighter planes, flags that have been flown overseas and battalion coins.
unknown title 2009
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He said he's frequently contacted by military personnel and has a display in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center that includes pictures of Ohio State memorabilia in jet flighter planes, flags that have been flown overseas and battalion coins.
unknown title 2009
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