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Flier   /flˈaɪər/   Listen
noun
Flier  n.  
1.
One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
2.
(Mach.) A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
3.
(Spinning) See Flyer, n., 5.
4.
(Arch.) See Flyer, n., 4.
5.
An aeroplane or flying machine.





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"Flier" Quotes from Famous Books



... fast that I didn't at least get a tail-feather. My college education, therefore, cost me ten thousand dollars, and I managed to squeeze a roadster automobile into that, also. With the remaining ninety thousand, I took a flier in thirty-nine hundred acres of red cedar up the Wiskah River. I paid for it on the instalment plan —yearly payments secured by first mortgage at six ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... hands. I only say not a boy in this town could give it to her so good. Fifteen years I've done business with that firm, and with his father before him. A-1 house! S-ay, I should worry that he ain't a Sunday-school boy. Show me the one that is. Your old man in his young days wasn't such a low flier, neither, if anybody should ask you." He made a whirring noise in his throat at that, pinching her cold cheek. She was walking rapidly now toward the house. "Well, since our daughter goes out riding in a six-thousand-dollar ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... almost sternly. "I'd just like to see myself sailing away, and leaving you here to stand the racket. No, both of you are going to accompany Tom. I can find a hiding place somewhere around; and besides, no one will suspect that an American flier is hanging out here. There's only one thing I hate like everything to ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach
... of war he at once made his mark As a "tempy," but Principal, Treasury Clerk, And the Permanent Staff and the CHANCELLOR too Pronounced him a flier and well ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various
... than ever 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 all right ...
— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton


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