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Flier

noun

Someone who travels by air. Synonym: flyer.

Someone who operates an aircraft. Synonyms: aeronaut, airman, aviator, flyer.

An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution. Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flyer, handbill, throwaway.

Fly

adjective

(British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked.

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... convinced," Toby went on to say, reflectively, "that we'll be able to put a flier on the ice this coming winter that will have everything beaten a mile. It works out ...

— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton

... sort exchanged. Yet there are traces of a singular civilisation in the rules which the leaders draw up to be observed in the war. Thus, no stratagems are to be used; the fighting men are to fraternise, if they will, after each combat; none may slay the flier, the unarmed, the charioteer, or the beater of the drum; horsemen are not to attack footmen, and nobody is to fling a spear till the preliminary challenges are finished; nor may any third man interfere when two combatants are engaged. These curious regulations—which ...

— Indian Poetry • Edwin Arnold

... watching the agile movements of the biplane eagerly, as Larry could not but note. "A very suggestive name for a flier, too." ...

— The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - or, Young Aviators in a Wreck • John Luther Langworthy

... plain box kite is easy to make and a good flier. Readers should try their hands on it ...

— Things To Make • Archibald Williams

... wedded Electra the daughter of deep-flowing Ocean, and she bare him swift Iris and the long-haired Harpies, Aello (Storm-swift) and Ocypetes (Swift-flier) who on their swift wings keep pace with the blasts of the winds and the birds; for quick as ...

— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

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