Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The point of the wing; the apex of the longest primary of a bird's wing.

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Examples

  • So nothing stops them as they insert the old wing-tip deeply in among the dentition.

    Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009

  • Before Thursday's order announcements, Airbus had received 332 orders for the A320neo, which it says will deliver 15% fuel savings because of more-efficient engines and wing-tip devices known as sharklets.

    Airbus Orders Pressure Boeing David Pearson 2011

  • He must have been fifteen feet from wing-tip to wing-tip.

    CHAPTER XXXIV 2010

  • Before Thursday's order announcements, Airbus had received 332 orders for the A320neo, which it says will deliver 15% fuel savings because of more-efficient engines and wing-tip devices known as sharklets.

    Airbus Orders Pressure Boeing David Pearson 2011

  • Especially had he been in quest of the famed jungle butterfly, a foot across from wing-tip to wing-tip, as velvet-dusky of lack of colour as was the gloom of the roof, of such lofty arboreal habits that it resorted only to the jungle roof and could be brought down only by a dose of shot.

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • At any rate, by the time I had passed Kingston on my way back on the thruway your own lawyers and those wing-tip zombie ones over at the state party HQ had already filed objections with the BOE and with a kool-aid drunk hack judge in Nassau County.

    Randy Credico: Congratulations Chuck! You've Knocked Me Off the Democratic Primary Ballot 2010

  • It's a dress Oxford wing-tip that has little perforations in its toe.

    Why The British Shoot Shoes 2007

  • I thought at first the upper arms were supposed to be wings--or a wing-tip collar.

    Hail, Hailoween! 2009

  • Adam follows it, scraping away more sand, and finds a copper cable encrusted with green and blue leading to a wing-tip light.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • In Pretty in Pink, Hughes never tells us about Duckie's family -- he doesn't have to, because the wing-tip shoes, stripped-bare mattress, thrift-store jacket, and Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness" do all the talking.

    Kristi York Wooten: John Hughes Films Weren't Racially Diverse, but That's OK 2009

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  • The flame engulfed his wing-tips, body, head;

    His being glowed a fierce translucent red;

    And when the mentor saw the sudden blaze,

    The moth's form lost within the glowing rays,

    He said: 'He knows, he knows the truth we seek,

    That hidden truth of which we cannot speak.'

    - Farid ud-Din Attar, 'The Conference of the Birds', translation by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis.

    November 23, 2008