glider

‘gtai-daz n. 4. one who or that which glides thru the air. 2. an appendage -or structure which enables an insect to glide thru the air: as, elytra used as sustainers and *gliders in flight. 3. an apparatus designed to glide, sail, or soar thru the air or to enable its user to do so; a gliding-machine; a sailing-machine. biplane glider, a glider of the biplane type; a gliding-machine having two superposed parallel sustaining-planes or aerofeils. doubl-monoplane glider, a glider of the doublezmenoplane type. see under monoplane. free glider, a glider which is free from, or unattacht to, the earth; a free-sailing or untowd gliding-machine. compare towed glider. towed glider, a glider which rs towd, dragd, or governd by means of a cerd or line. compare free glider.