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Meanings of gas-bag in English

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Usage of gas-bag in English
1
The answer: one is a flaming Nazi gas-bag, the other a dirigible.
The Irish Times
2
Practically I contracted my sausage gas-bag by netting it down.
Tono-Bungay
3
Yes; gas-bag intact, and we've withdrawn out of easy range.
Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard ...
4
His ego had no cosmos except that huge, oblong gas-bag.
The Last Shot
5
Frank drew him aside and explained to him Constantio's plan for reinflating the gas-bag.
The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon
6
And Littlefield, the conceited old gas-bag, acting like it was Ted that was the bad influence!
Babbitt
7
This is the automatic operation of the safety valve on the gas-bag directly by the air ballonets.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
8
Beneath the gas-bag is a long strengthened girder, and from this in turn the car is suspended.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
9
But the majority of what they did not dare trust to the gas-bag they carried in the chassis.
The Boy Aviators in Africa; Or, an Aerial Ivory Trail
10
The engine was the first one to be, so to speak, right in the plane of the gas-bag.
Tono-Bungay
11
He had never realised before that an airship was not one simple continuous gas-bag containing nothing but gas.
The War in the Air
12
By this time the gas-bag had swollen to a goodly rotundity and was jerking strongly upon its lashings.
The Lost World
13
But Stener had sunk in on himself like an empty gas-bag, and no efforts were sufficient to inflate him.
The Financier: A Novel
14
The fabric of the "envelope"-thatis to say, of the gas-bag-iscoated both outside and inside with rubber.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
15
He realised that many things must be learned before he could handle successfully the much more delicate and sensitive elongated gas-bag.
Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
16
I am afraid it may strike us broadside on and tear the cabin and decks loose from the gas-bag, replied the Frenchman.
The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon
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