flyer
/ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.58 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A leaflet, often for advertising.
noun
The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
noun
An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
Example Sentences
- "It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: after much watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fear and trembling, made her first flyer on a “margin,” using the remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk."
- "An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter."
- "The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute."
- "Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can."
Etymology
From fly + -er (agent noun suffix). With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.