Wing

Wing

A wing is a type of fin with a surface that produces lift for flight or propulsion through the atmosphere, or through another gaseous or liquid fluid. As such, wings have an airfoil shape, a streamlined cross-sectional shape producing a useful lift to drag ratio.

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Famous quotes containing the word wing:

    “The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
    The wing trails like a banner in defeat,”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    “The wild touch of thy dye-dusty wing!
    I found that wing broken today!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “the uncomfortable angels that rot
    On the slabs, a wing chipped here, an arm there:
    The brute curiosity of an angel’s stare
    Turns you, like them, to stone....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)