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Definition of Bar fly
1. Noun. A drinker who frequents bars.
Definition of Bar fly
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of barfly) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bar Fly
Literary usage of Bar fly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Typographia: an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of by Thomas Curson Hansard (1825)
"If the catch stand too low, it will not hold the bar, which will come down when
he is at work; for if, as it often happens, he lets the bar fly back harder ..."
2. The Printer's Grammar: Containing a Concise History of the Origin of by John Smith (1787)
"... further the Bar flies back, the more he hinders dif- patch in recovering it
again. But yet he muft let the bar fly fo far back as that the Tympan may ..."
3. A Treatise on the Strength of Timber, Cast and Malleable Iron, and Other by Peter Barlow, Robert Willis (1851)
"... the action of the weight tends to make the bar fly upwards when it reaches
the end of its course. To keep it in its groove, therefore, a steel stirrup, ..."
4. A treatise on the strength of materials by Peter Barlow (1867)
"We shall presently see that the action of the weight tends to make the bar fly
upwards when it reaches the end ..."
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