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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A balloon anchored singly or in a series over a military objective, formerly used to support nets that hindered the passage of low-flying enemy aircraft.
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- noun A
tethered balloon , attached to the ground with ametal cable , intended todeter low-flyingenemy aircraft ; used especially inWorld War II .
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- noun an elongated tethered balloon or blimp with cables or net suspended from it to deter enemy planes that are flying low
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bilby commented on the word barrage balloon
Bringing down planes with aerostats.
August 14, 2009
reesetee commented on the word barrage balloon
The one in the photo captioned "Early World War I British Barrage Balloon" looks like an escapee from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
August 14, 2009
yarb commented on the word barrage balloon
I love the idea of barrage balloons. It's the soft bumbling blimpish innocence of the aerostat frustrating the mechanised angularity of the warplanes.
August 14, 2009