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Definition of Gasbags
1. gasbag [n] - See also: gasbag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gasbags
Literary usage of Gasbags
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours: With a Discussion of Aircraft in by Arthur Whitten Brown, Alan Bott (1920)
"gasbags.—The gas capacity is divided up into gasbags made of suitable rubber-proofed
... gasbags will be fitted to automatic relief valves and hand control ..."
2. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2003)
"I've put that team onto something else, a kinematics routine for a class of flying
spooks that use gasbags to stay aloft—silent and scary. ..."
3. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"Bundles of rocket flares, empty ammunition boxes, steel helmets crushed in by
shell-fragments, gasbags, eye-protectors against lachrymatory shells, spades, ..."
4. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"Bundles of rocket flares, empty ammunition boxes, steel helmets crushed in by
shell-fragments, gasbags, eye-protectors against lachrymatory shells, spades, ..."
5. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen, Jane Lassell, Caroline Lassell (1885)
"The gases are stored in two separate gasbags (Fig. 4), whence they reach the lamp
by means of pressure. The outer wide tube of the lamp must be placed in ..."
6. A Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1887)
"In addition to the gasometer described, various other forms are employed; gasbags
are very well adapted for preserving gases. Physical Properties. ..."
7. A Text-book of Medical Chemistry and Toxicology by James William Holland (1905)
"gasbags of rubber, leather, membrane, or other porous material permit this
diffusion witli such freedom that in a short time the contents of the bag become ..."
8. Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours: With a Discussion of Aircraft in by Arthur Whitten Brown, Alan Bott (1920)
"gasbags.—The gas capacity is divided up into gasbags made of suitable rubber-proofed
... gasbags will be fitted to automatic relief valves and hand control ..."
9. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2003)
"I've put that team onto something else, a kinematics routine for a class of flying
spooks that use gasbags to stay aloft—silent and scary. ..."
10. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"Bundles of rocket flares, empty ammunition boxes, steel helmets crushed in by
shell-fragments, gasbags, eye-protectors against lachrymatory shells, spades, ..."
11. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"Bundles of rocket flares, empty ammunition boxes, steel helmets crushed in by
shell-fragments, gasbags, eye-protectors against lachrymatory shells, spades, ..."
12. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen, Jane Lassell, Caroline Lassell (1885)
"The gases are stored in two separate gasbags (Fig. 4), whence they reach the lamp
by means of pressure. The outer wide tube of the lamp must be placed in ..."
13. A Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1887)
"In addition to the gasometer described, various other forms are employed; gasbags
are very well adapted for preserving gases. Physical Properties. ..."
14. A Text-book of Medical Chemistry and Toxicology by James William Holland (1905)
"gasbags of rubber, leather, membrane, or other porous material permit this
diffusion witli such freedom that in a short time the contents of the bag become ..."
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