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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A player who plays wing, as in hockey or soccer.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which wings, in any sense.
  • noun A small cask or tank for holding water, stowed in the wing of a ship, where the space is much reduced by the approaching lines of the hull. (See wing, n., 9 .) Tanks are accurately fitted to the sloping sides of the ship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Naut.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun nautical One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
  • noun sports An offensive player who plays on either side of the center.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (sports) player in wing position

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