flycraft

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noun

A machine, device, or vessel that is capable of flight.

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nounflycraft (plural flycrafts or flycraft)

plural flycrafts

  1. literatureA machine, device, or vessel that is capable of flight.

    "They don't have to follow on land. There are flycraft and matboats in Peace City that will search us out."

    2015, original 1978, Brian W. Aldiss, Enemies of the System
    2 more examples

    The flycraft was coasting toward the enemy killer biomachines when suddenly chance dealt Andora a soft blow in the form of a collision with a piece of space junk that glowed softly as it was repelled by the cloak and shield.

    2010, John Likides, EROS TRIUMPHANT

    Against the blackboard surface of the sky, flycrafts whizzed by, leaving crisscrossing trails of radiance that slowly dissipated, soon replaced by others.

    2018, Bill Campbell, Francesco Verso, Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction

Origin

From fly + -craft.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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