chandelle has definitions from the field of transportation
1
[ verb ] climb suddenly and steeply

Examples

"The airplane chandelled"

Used in print

(Richard Sanders Allen, "When Fogg Flew the Mail"...)

When driving rain or mist socked in one valley , Fogg would chandelle up and over to reverse course and try another one , ranging from the Ottauquechee up_to Danville in search of safe passage through the mountain_passes .

Related terms

rise air_travel

2
[ noun ] (transportation) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction

Related terms

flight_maneuver

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