thopter
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of ornithopter.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]thopter (plural thopters)
- (fiction) Synonym of ornithopter (“birdlike aircraft”)
- 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune, New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 225:
- Another ’thopter glided in over the cliff wall above Hawat. He drew in a sharp breath as he saw it—a big troop-carrier. It flew with the slow, spread-wing heaviness of a full load like a giant bird coming to its nest.
- 1997 September, Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion, New York: Bantam, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 363:
- I'm sending down five more dropships, combat EMVs, and a thopter gunship.
- 2000 February 14, “Flowstone Thopter”, in Magic: The Gathering, Nemesis, Wizards of the Coast:
- Flowstone Thopter gets +1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.