"wifferdill" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Dik Alan Daso, Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary, page 20",
          "text": "Doolittle executed a grand wifferdill—rapidly climbing to exchange airspeed for altitude—after completing the course, then a perfect landing.",
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          "ref": "2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 24",
          "text": "When not breeding, they whirl in rings above the earth, dive for flies with gaping, froglike mouths, and perform whifferdales and rolls, glancing in and out of sight.",
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        "An elaborate, multiaxis aerobatic manoeuvre, especially one in which an aircraft makes a series of very tight turns in order to reverse its direction of travel."
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        "(aviation) An elaborate, multiaxis aerobatic manoeuvre, especially one in which an aircraft makes a series of very tight turns in order to reverse its direction of travel."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "whifferdale"
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          "word": "whifferdill"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Whifferdill turn"
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        "(aviation) An elaborate, multiaxis aerobatic manoeuvre, especially one in which an aircraft makes a series of very tight turns in order to reverse its direction of travel."
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  "synonyms": [
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      "word": "whifferdale"
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