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Definition of Straightaways
1. straightaway [n] - See also: straightaway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straightaways
Literary usage of Straightaways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Upland Game Birds by Edwyn Sandys, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1902)
"... to hold high on straightaways about as high as his head, ... straightaways and
dead on incomers, and to pull trigger with the finger and not with the ..."
2. Upland Game Birds by Edwyn Sandys, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1902)
"... to hold high on straightaways about as high as his head, low on low-flying
straightaways and dead on incomers, and to pull trigger with the finger and ..."
3. A History of the Adirondacks by Alfred Lee Donaldson (1921)
"... toboggan coast with curves, as well as straightaways, requires considerable
engineering, when a speed of 60 miles an hour is the product wished for. ..."
4. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"(b) There is a speed at which the maximum ing been previously instructed simply
to make lift angle is able only to sustain the plane; this "straightaways" ..."
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