Definition of Flymaker

1. one who ties flies for fishing [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flymaker

flying squirrels
flying start
flying starts
flying the coop
flying the nest
flying toilets
flying visit
flyingfish
flyingfishes
flyings
flyleaf
flyleafs
flyleaves
flyless
flymaker (current term)
flymakers
flyman
flymen
flyness
flyoff
flyoffs
flyout
flyouts
flyover
flyover state
flyover states
flyovers
flypaper
flypaper theory

Literary usage of Flymaker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary by John Harrington Keene (1881)
"I would suggest to any of my readers who desire to acquire the complete art that they visit any manufacturing flymaker's and notice the facility with which ..."

2. Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland (1894)
"... Rugs," " Tom Walker and the Devil," " The Golden Tooth," " Captain Kidd," " The Witch flymaker," and an admirable collection of unearthly German tales, ..."

3. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1904)
"Bowne, were to join me in examining a fly's eye, I am in hopes that he would pronounce it not only proof of "a flymaker," but would also confess that its ..."

4. The fly-fisher's entomology by Alfred Ronalds (1856)
""Although the imitation of nature is the principal object to be desired by the flymaker, yet in some instances it will be advisable to enlarge or diminish ..."

5. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875)
"... in which the dodges of the angler are sometimes very artful, and the imitation of the natural object by the flymaker is exceedingly close, especially in ..."

6. The Angler's Instructor: A Treatise on the Best Modes of Angling in English by William Bailey, of Nottingham William Bailey (1857)
"I would, therefore, recommend the Angler to have a good assortment of flies, and, when he goes to a strange river, to seek out the nearest flymaker, who is, ..."

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