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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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"Flier" Quotes from Famous Books

... is to instruct the flier either to carry out his observations of the territory generally, or to report at length upon a specified stretch of country. In the latter event he may fly to and fro over the area in question until he has acquired all the data it is possible to collect. His work not only comprises the general ...

— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot

... benefit of those who have never ridden upon the famous "Flier," I could describe the cars no better than to say that coming upon them by night as I did, they looked like a gigantic, shiny worm, of strange shape, through whose tiny port-holes of heavy glass in the ...

— The Undersea Tube • L. Taylor Hansen

... on his back. Then he gained on his field who were galled by the Churn, The plough searched them out as they came to the Turn. But Gavotte, black and coral, went strong as a spate Charles thought "She's a flier and ...

— Right Royal • John Masefield

... no small boat so popular or so generally useful as the American catboat. The cat can sail into the very eye of the wind, while before the wind she is a flier, and yet she is not the best sail boat for a beginner. Let me tell you why: First, the sail is heavy and so it is hard to hoist and reef. Second, in going before the wind there is constant danger of jibing with serious results. Third, the catboat has a very bad habit ...

— Healthful Sports for Boys • Alfred Rochefort

... This was the flier I took over to France and tried to break in upon the fine roads we all know so well. As I finished the race almost before I began it, the less said about the affair the better—but I shall never forget that Paris to Vienna meeting, ...

— The Man Who Drove the Car • Max Pemberton

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