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A balloon.
“Presently a north-easterly current of wind struck the air-ship, and it began to move with great velocity upon a horizontal line.”—Max Adeler: The Captain’s MS.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.