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Definition of Shooflies
1. shoofly [n] - See also: shoofly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shooflies
Literary usage of Shooflies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reflections of a Lawyer by Morris Salem (1911)
"Two shooflies in citizens' clothes are sei downtown to give you their ... Some of
the mine plaints made by the shooflies are for fail have their shoe laces ..."
2. American City Government by Charles Austin Beard (1912)
"... their attempt to hold patrolmen to the faithful discharge of their duties is
the use of plain- clothes detectives or " shooflies," as they are called. ..."
3. The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory, William Phipps Blake (1915)
"shooflies Nos. 1 to 7, inclusive, were at an elevation of —250 ft. or more.
Shoofly No. 11 is 39 miles long, and follows the —200-ft. contour, ..."
4. Wood-using Industries of New York by John Tyre Harris (1913)
"Hickory and chestnut are used for " shooflies," a device with long fingers for
freeing the sheets of paper from cylinder presses. ..."
5. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1892)
"And of the Arabs, the shooflies, and the Wimbledon Hornets ? Every •dog has his
day, is a saying that applies here as elsewhere, and the ' glorious ..."
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