Brewer's: An Air-ship

A balloon.

“Presently a north-easterly current of wind struck the air-ship, and it began to move with great velocity upon a horizontal line.”

“Max Adeler: The Captain's MS.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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