box kite

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box kite

A tailless kite formed from or as if from two or more open-ended boxes connected at the corners by shafts spanning an interval of open space.

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box kite - a kite shaped like a box open at both ends

kite - plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string

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1) Mike Stines of West Hills tests his homemade box kite, made of plastic bags and clothes hangers, at Pierce College.

DANGER IN WIND FIRE CREWS KEEP EYE ON SANTA ANAS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Later, the two apply the principles learned from various experiments to the construction of a complicated box kite that will actually fly and even carry them short distances.

Gilling, Tom. The adventures of Miles and Isabel by LaMontagne, Phyllis / Kliatt

That accomplishment would double the highest official altitude record for kites, set in 1919 by a string of eight box kites that reached 9,740 meters.

Astride the wind by Monastersky, Richard / Science News

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