Flyer

·noun One that uses wings.

II. Flyer ·noun The fly of a flag: ·see Fly, ·noun, 6.

III. Flyer ·noun The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.

IV. Flyer ·noun Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, ·etc.

V. Flyer ·noun One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.

VI. Flyer ·noun A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.

VII. Flyer ·noun The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin;

— so called from their swift revolution. ·see Fly, ·noun, 11.