"wingtip" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 13",
          "text": "They're wonderful hoverers, though, and they'll remain stationary in the air, wing-tips vibrating, till they've marked their prey[.]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 26",
          "text": "The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together.",
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        "The extreme tip of the wing of an aircraft, bird, flying insect, etc."
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          "_dis1": "70 12 18",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "of flying things",
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            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Flügelspitze"
        }
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    },
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        "A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe"
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          "ref": "2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure",
          "text": "Then, immaculately dressed in three-piece suit, starched collar, and wingtips, Wilbur was obliged to drive a spike of Nevada silver into a railroad tie, a tricky and potentially embarrassing ceremonoial duty, especially with a phalanx of eager photographers poised to record every misswing.",
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        "A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe",
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        "A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe",
        "(US) A brogue (shoe)"
      ],
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      "_dis1": "0 50 50",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of a shoe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Flügelkappe"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 50 50",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of a shoe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "kapka"
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        },
        {
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        "A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe",
        "(US) A brogue (shoe)"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of flying things",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Flügelspitze"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "of a shoe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Flügelkappe"
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of a shoe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kapka"
    }
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  "word": "wingtip"
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