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Definition of Pibal
1. a small balloon for determining the direction and speed of the wind [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pibal
| piaster piasters piastre piastres piation piazza piazzalike piazzas piazze piazzian | pibal (current term) pibals pibble pibbles pibcorn pibcorns piberaline pibgorn piblokto pibloktoq | pibroch pibrochs pic pica pica-pica |
Literary usage of Pibal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roswell Report: Fact Vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert by Richard L. Weaver (1997)
"Test 7 at dawn on July 2 with pibal 1 hr first following with ... No recordings
from Roswell as pibal showed no W winds. Balloons picked up by radar WL and ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1797)
"... or even that of Ptolemy), they were inhabited by can- pibal negroes in times
of much greater antiquity. ..."
3. English Poetry by Newberry Library (1918)
"[Three Latin poems by George Buchanan, Michel de L'Hos- pibal and Sir Thomas
Craig respectively, with English translations] Y ..."
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