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fly book

noun Angling.

a booklike case for artificial flies.

Words nearby fly book

fly at, fly ball, fly blind, fly blister, fly block, fly book, fly front, fly gallery, fly half, fly high, fly honeysuckle

Origin of fly book

First recorded in 1840–50

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

Example sentences from the Web for fly book

His brothers were mere oafs in learning, none of whom ever looked at printed paper save to make a fly-book of it.
Red Cap Tales|Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Now that rod and that creel (and the fly-book within it) have since been restored to Sir Warwick Moyle.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
His rod and fly-book were but pretexts—his object was solitude.
Guy Deverell, v. 1 of 2|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The fly-book stamps the fisherman even more truly than the topboot stamps the fox-hunter.
A Cotswold Village|J. Arthur Gibbs

Knight bent, picked up another of the feathers and laid it away in his fly-book.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party|C. E. Jacobs

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