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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.
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Examples
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On their last Sunday in the town they assembled the glider, single-surfaced, like a monoplane, twenty-two feet in span, with a tail, and with a double bar beneath the plane, by which the pilot was to hang, his hands holding cords attached to the entering edge of the plane, balancing the glider by movements of his body.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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