flyern.

1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy Ep. Edw. IV, xxix. in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 116 Till the same of the fixed by the same of the flier be over-gone.

1881 C. Whitehead Hops ii. 14 They [hops] soon ‘go off’, and the petals of the flower cones become disintegrated, or ‘flyers’ in the pickers' parlance.

1679 Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 1. 17 A Tail..will help both to support, and also to steer or guide the Flyer.]

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Flier, flyer, an airman.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling ix. 79 In the dining-room were two lady fliers, dressed in blue.

1953 C. Day Lewis Ital. Visit ii. 31 Recall how flyers from a raid returning, Lightened of one death, were elected for another.

1880 15th Rep. Aeronaut. Soc. 21 June 22 If you will leave the balloon to me I will not trespass on your flyers.

1903 M. Wright in M. W. McFarland Wright Pap. (1953) I. 393 I spend the day largely in getting typewriter copies of the description of the Wright flyer.

1908 H. G. Wells War in Air viii. 254 Next only to the Butteridge machine these were certainly the most efficient heavier-than-air fliers that had ever appeared.

1964 Listener 14 May 780/1 Ordinary motorists will not mind, because about this time they will all possess small private flyers.

1795 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 50 Our flyers were able to get near them, but not nearer than half gun~shot.

1842 Spirit of Times 4 June 163 We hope the Rocket of our old friend Dr. W. may be such another ‘flyer’; he certainly ‘goes off’ well.

1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough (ed. 12) x. 76 Grooms with led horses are overtaken by their masters, and we recognize many a well-known flyer.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling ix. 277 He [sc. a fish] was a regular flyer... He took out clear, without stopping for a second, over one hundred yards of line.

1877 Coursing Cal. Autumn 1876 79 Mr. Brocklebank's Bombard..although not a flyer, he will turn out a useful dog.

1887 A. W. Tuer & C. E. Fagan First Year Silken Reign vii. 129 The..coach, achieved for itself an enviable reputation as a ‘flyer’ of the first order.

1888 St. Louis Globe Democrat 2 Mar. (Farmer) In spite of the strike, passenger trains excepting what are known as the flyers, are running with reasonable regularity.

1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 131 You ought to see the flier a friend of mine has got. A Mercury Six [motor-car] with a limousine top like a grand-opera box.

1922 E. Wallace Flying Fifty-five xi. 67 Fifty-Five is a flyer... He did the five furlongs in fifty-eight and a fifth seconds.

1948 C. L. B. Hubbard Dogs in Brit. 35 Heredity and environment count a great deal in whether a puppy will be a ‘flyer’ or a ‘bad-doer’.

1971 Daily Tel. 21 July 11/2 The normal carburettor-fed 2002 is one of the fastest cars in its class: with the new Kugelfischer fuel injection system it is a real flyer.

1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. xi. 118 At first starting, a young male or female kangaroo, called in the colony ‘a flyer’, can leave both horse and hound far behind.

1861 T. McCombie Austral. Sketches 172 The settlers designate the old kangaroos as ‘old men’ and ‘old women’, the full-grown animals are named ‘Flyers’.

1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 16 Two young fliers had got through the fence surrounding the ‘turkey nest’ tank.

1930 T. Thurston Man in Black Hat xvi. 278 We had an extraordinarily pretty girl here in the bar. Real flier, she was.

1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas iii. 30 I am no flier in the way of looks.

1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 140 He's not a flier at the accounts.

1913 Cricket 305 Every bowler pitches short sometimes, and when he does so, the resultant rib-roaster..flier..call it what you will, is no more than an ordinary risk.

1954 J. H. Fingleton Ashes crown Year 58 May ducked a flier from Archer and was hit on the back.

1962 Times 1 May 4/2 Nobody was the victim of a flyer.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 125 A Jack, by being only wown up, without thripping the..flyer.

1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 5 The Flyer,..Turn'd round so quick, you scarce could see it.

1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xvi. 95 Spinning like the flyer of a jack.

1730 H. de Saumarez in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 47 The four Iron Fins, or Flyers..These Flyers are so contrived as to have full Play in any Motion of the Boat.

1781 Watt Patent in Muirhead Mech. Invent. Watt III. 52 In order that the said motion may be more regular, I fix to or upon the shaft or axis FML..a heavy wheel or flyer.

1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. (1821) 97 Paur man wur ath fleers, en raund it went.

a1848 J. Marcet Seasons (ed. 5) IV. ii. 35 That mill with the great fliers, that the wind pushes round.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 383 A roving-frame of a different construction has received more general adoption..; it is called the bobbin and flier roving-frame.

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 201 At each extremity of the flyer an eye is formed..The thread from the bobbin is passed through both these eyes.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 356/2 The flyer..winds it upon the bobbin.

1957 Encycl. Brit. VI. 562/1 Following on the last head of drawframes the process becomes one principally of attenuation. To this end the material is passed through one, two, three or four passages of machines collectively known as flyer frames.

1869 J. H. Webster in Eng. Mech. 31 Dec. 387/2 The ‘flyer’..winds the string on to the mandrel.

1577 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 414 Iij payer of courtings withe the flyers of saye.

1580 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 414 One payer of say hingers with fleers.

?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 66 Flyers and winders..are plain, and triangular Steps without any Landing place.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 248 Straight Stairs..always fly, and never Wind, and therefore are by some call'd Flyers.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 329/2 Straight stairs are called flyers.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 895/2 Flyer, a vibratory rod with fingers which take the sheet of paper from the tapes and carry it to the delivery table, the sheet resting flatly against the flyer-fingers by the resistance of the air.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 706.

1889 Literary World (Boston) 21 Dec. 485/2 Inserting gaily~colored advertising fliers in the body of the magazine.

1952 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (ed. 2) §477.4 Flyer,..a warrant for arrest.

1955 D. W. Maurer in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 149 Is there a flyer out for this man? This is a police circular carrying photographs, fingerprints.

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xiv. 94 Boards covered with tacked-up police flyers.

1965 ‘E. McBain’ Doll (1966) iii. 38 Leslie offered him the agency flyer on Tinha, the composite that went to all photographers, advertising agency art directors, and prospective clients.

1966 ‘D. Shannon’ With Vengeance i. 13 They had also an unidentified corpse, and all the paperwork on that: the flyers sent out with the description.

1966 Word Study Feb. 6/2 This sentence from a recent advertising flier of Fortune.

1912 F. Bond Cathedrals 73 A second set of fliers was built above the aisle roof.

1899 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 435 Flyers, the first two bottom leaves [of tobacco] which are overripe and very trashy.

1883 R. G. White Mr. Washington Adams in Eng. 51 Haven't we taken rather a flyer? What has all this to do with Mrs. Trollope?

1846 Spirit of Times 11 July 229/3 Lend me a quarter..just for a flyer.

1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 37 A. B. Neilson occasionally sells fifty or a hundred shares of stock by way of a flyer.

1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 136 A ‘flyer’, is a small side operation, not employing one's whole capital. It is nearly equivalent to what is ordinarily known as a venture.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Aug. 11/1 He..turned to the Wall-street news to see how much he had already made on his flyer.

1888 New Princeton Rev. 5 328 The temptation to take a flyer in the market.

1966 Newsweek 2 May 64/1 More and more ‘Aunt Janes’ are deciding to take a flyer, growing impatient with their slow-moving quality stocks as they see high-flyers double and triple in value.