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/flˈaɪər/ Listen

noun

Flyer n.

One that uses wings.

The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.

Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.

(Arch.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.

The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.

The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.

(Stock Jobbing) A small operation not involving? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture. (Cant)

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"Flyer" Quotes from Famous Books

... and strong flyer, with its swallow-like sweep of wing, comes into the colour schemes of nature with the otter, that at rare times thrusts a sleek grey head from the river, with the grey-brown cotton-tails that bound across the stubble, and the ...

— Moths of the Limberlost • Gene Stratton-Porter

... have been following with great interest Ray Cummings' latest piece, "Jetta of the Lowlands," which is rather unique in its ideas. In a recent issue Mr. Cummings explained to his readers that the flyer was made invisible by bending the light rays around it. This in itself is quite plausible, but when he tells us he could see the land below them, and the other flyer, we have to draw a line. It is quite plain ...

— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various

... her own wealth. She had no wish to be judged from a monetary standpoint, and Poppar's fame had not travelled across the ocean. He was just an ordinary everyday millionaire, with a modest little income of from three to four hundred a day; not a real, genuine high-flyer, with a ...

— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... the stripped flyer down on the fused ground as close to the spot from which he had taken off as he could remember. Now—if those on the spacer would only ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... the elderly plutocrat in black broadcloth who knelt in the pew in front of me was invoking the aid of the Almighty so that his tenements might bring in their rentals promptly; so that his little "flyer" in cotton might prove successful; so that the children in his mills might ...

— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair

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