Word Meanings - GUIDEROPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.

• Ballooned
  Swelled out like a balloon.
• Grounded
  of Ground
• Lengthful
  Long.
• Withouten
  Without.
• Ballooner
  One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.
• Grounding
  of Ground
• Lengthily
  In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
• Withoutforth
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth.
• Balloon fish
  A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
• Groundage
  A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
• Lengthiness
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• ABOUTSLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• About-sledge
  The largest hammer used by smiths.
• Ballooning
  The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
• Groundedly
  In a grounded or firmly established manner.
• Lengthways
  Alt. of Lengthwise
• BALLOONFISH
  A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
• Ballooning spider
  A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

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