2. Verb. (third-person singular of flyer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flyers
1. flyer [n] - See also: flyer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyers
Literary usage of Flyers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Travels of Birds: Our Birds and Their Journeys to Strange Lands by Frank Michler Chapman (1916)
"But the night flyers are the shy, retiring birds of thickets and undergrowth ...
The Thrushes, Warblers, Vireos, and small Flycatchers are all night flyers. ..."
2. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1885)
"When these were routed, some gave chase to the flyers, others charged the flanks
of those Macedonians who were still fighting, so that the conquering wing, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Wind up the string by turning the flyers different ways, so that the spring of
the bow may unwind them with their anterior edges ascending; ..."
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