Talk:cabre

cabre
To fly upside down. (Does he mean cabré:?) SemperBlotto 21:29, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Never heard of it, but that IPA doesn't look like English to me. Maybe it's enPR, but it's not IPA. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:40, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I found a WWI aviation use that is not consistent with the sense given:
 * In vain I have opened the throttle wide; the machine cannot fly at the right angle of incidence. I must descend, and to do that it is necessary to change my course—a very difficult manoeuvre, with the machine cabred as it is and so near the ground! I have hardly touched the rudder bar preparatory to redress in case of a skid when I see a little hunting plane making straight for me. Instinctively I cut off the ignition, running the risk of crashing on to the ground but the little monoplane passes over me with a vertical leap! The pilot salutes me, ironically, as he goes by—imitating with his arms my heavy flight, tail down.
 * There is nothing about this or the preceding text describing takeoff that suggests the plane is flying inverted. Note that the usage was italic. DCDuring TALK 00:59, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Our entry at cabré seems right, but much of the usage seems to be without accent. DCDuring TALK 01:29, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Verb sense RFV-failed. Cabré is defined as an adjective, so I have changed cabre's "alternative form of" sense into an adjective (it was a verb). I also couldn't find attestation of the noun sense, but found a homograph, a racial classification. — Beobach 23:15, 20 November 2010 (UTC)