Definitions for wing-tip

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wing-tip wing tip

Wing-Tip is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in wing-tip (-giinptw).

Definitions for wing-tip

noun

1. Also, wingtip. the extreme outer edge of an airplane wing.
2. a toecap, often with a perforated pattern, having a point at the center and a piece at each side extending back along the top and sides.
3. a style of shoe with such a toe.
4. the portion of a bird's folded wing formed by the part of the primary feathers extending beyond the secondary feathers.

Origin of wing-tip

First recorded in 1870-75

Examples for wing-tip

Still again it will extend one wing tip in advance of the other, or be spreading or folding, lowering or raising its tail.

Stan picked up the One-Nine, scissoring off a wing tip and sending him wavering away toward the east.

Another Airacobra dived in and when it zoomed away, they were minus one wing tip and their port engine was stuttering.

He dived, and the wing tip landing lights went on, sending fierce glares downward.

But the wing tip didn't quite catch and grab on the ground to pile up the whole works in a heap.

Each one of the four uncles was proud of the blue eyes of wing tip the Spick.

The Sea Eagle hesitated, half rose, and then crashed down to the ground, landing heavily on one wing tip and smashing it to bits.

He intercepted me neatly as I rounded the wing tip and approached the cockpit.

It was a big bird with an eight-foot stretch from wing tip to tip as measured by this plainsman's rule—his hands.

Some airship went too close to the statue, and a wing tip, or a rudder hit the torch.