Meanings
- uncountableThe time when a vehicle such as an airplane is in flight.
Skytime to Lebanon or Israel is twelve minutes, add four more for Jordan.
1957, The Georgia Review - Volume 11, page 681 more example
Be aware: skytime has been granted so all drakes are coming out to play. Go ahead and test the upgrade a little more but don't push yourselves.
2016, James Barclay, Heart of Granite - uncountableTime that an astronomer has booked for use of a major telescope.
But it's possible for an astronomer in say, England, or Hawaii, to book skytime here and scrutinize the results from his own laboratory via computer.
1995, Liz Rigbey, Total Eclipse, page 39 - uncountableTime as measured by looking at the sky.
Though not the temporal of clocks and watches, he has neither — he is acutely aware of skytime.
1985, Field - Issues 32-33, page 562 more examples
Close to midnight part of the horizon was suffused with a pearly glow, and presently, on skytime, the great moon peered above the water, then seemed to bound free, eager to pace along its arching trail, throwing a path of molten silver on an ebon sea.
1914, Adventure - Volume 9, Issues 4-6, page 14At sunset, which was in a grey bank with moist gold dabs and racks, the whole round of skytime had level clouds naturally lead-colour but the upper parts ruddled, some more, some less rosy.
1972, Jerome Francis Anthony Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet of Nature - Volume 1, page 210
Origin
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