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alighting gear

noun

Definition of alighting gear

: landing gear Gently at first, then with greater and greater speed, shaking and bouncing a little on the broad, flat wheels that Stern had fitted to the alighting gear, the plane rolled off along the firm-beaten sands.— George Allan England, Darkness and Dawn, 2009

First Known Use of alighting gear

1908, in the meaning defined above

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