Finbat Kite - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: finbat kiteFinbat kite
same as Eddy kite...
check-kiting
check-kiting : the practice of drawing on uncollected funds during the time needed to clear a check deposited in a bank esp. if the check is worthless called also kiting NOTE: Check-kiting typically works this way: a check drawn on insufficient funds in one bank is deposited in a second bank, and the funds represented by the check are immediately withdrawn from the second bank. The money is ultimately deposited in the first bank to cover the check before it clears, which usually takes several days. ...
Box kite
A kite invented by Lawrence Hargrave of Sydney Australia which consist of two light rectangular boxes or cells open on two sides and fastened together horizontally Called also Hargrave kite or cellular kite...
Eddy kite
A quadrilateral tailless kite with convex surfaces exposed to the wind This kite was extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments It is now generally superseded by the box kite...
kiting
kiting : check-kiting ...
Kite
To raise money by ldquokitesrdquo as kiting transactions See Kite 6...
Parakite
A train or series of kites on one string and flying tandem used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a man for military reconnaissance also a kite of such a train...
Aircraft
Aircraft, See AERIAL NAVIGATION ACTS.Includes aeroplanes, balloons, kite balloons, airships, gliders or other machines for flying. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (ii)]Means any machine which can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air, other than the reactions of the air against the earth's surface, and includes balloons, whether fixed or free, airships, kites, gliders and flying machines. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (a)]...
Bob
Anything that hangs so as to play loosely or with a short abrupt motion as at the end of a string a pendant as the bob at the end of a kites tail...
Box tail
In a flying machine a tail or rudder usually fixed resembling a box kite...
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