Usage examples (4)

• -- The term orthopter, or ornithopter, meaning bird wing, is applied to such flying machines as depend on wing motion to support them in the air.
• If I had stopped to guess I would probably have considered the author a longicorn beetle or some fiddling orthopter.
• Two of them, the aeroplane, and the orthopter, have prototypes in nature, and are distinguished by their respective similarities to the soaring birds, and those with...
• This principle, however, affords a safer means of navigating than the orthopter type, because the blades of such an instrument can be forced through the air with...