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Flier

noun

Someone who travels by air. Synonym: flyer.

Someone who operates an aircraft. Synonyms: aeronaut, airman, aviator, flyer.

An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution. Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flyer, handbill, throwaway.

Fly

adjective

(British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked.

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"Flier" Quotes from Famous Books

... be no prophet: in these days of electricity, concentrated and accumulative after the fashion of M. Faure, aided perhaps by some lighter gas, some condensed form of tamed dynamite,—these elevating and motive powers being helped by exquisite mechanism either as attached to the human form (if the flier be an athlete) or quickening a vehicle with flapping wings impelled by electricity, in which he might sit (if said flier is as burdened with "too solid flesh" as some of us)—these mixed potencies, I say, of electricity ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... mission and obtains the same results. An American is a combination of the two, but neither better nor worse. Though there is a large number of expert German airmen I do not believe the average Teuton makes as good a flier as a ...

— Flying for France • James R. McConnell

... out of the headquarters tent. Just beyond the entrance flap was one of the two gyrocopters used for flying within the Dome. He leaped into the cockpit and drove home the starter-piston. The flier buzzed straight up, ...

— The Great Dome on Mercury • Arthur Leo Zagat

... action, taking the crop in the most favorable manner—that is, leaning toward the knife. Passing along the field (which was from two to three hundred yards in length) it cut down a breadth of little more than four feet. The corn being laid, the flier, of course did not come into practical operation; nor was it necessary that it should do so—the elements having already done its work. The corn was well cut—the stubble ...

— Obed Hussey - Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap • Various

... master pilots of both armies, English and French, perform soul-shaking gyrations high in air, feats quite impossible hitherto and never attempted until lately. There is now a course of aerial gymnastics which every flier must pass successfully before he may call himself a "chasing" pilot; and, from what I have observed, it would seem that to become a pilot one must be either all nerve or possess no nerve ...

— Great Britain at War • Jeffery Farnol

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