fly book

noun Angling.

a booklike case for artificial flies.

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Origin of fly book

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby fly book

fly blister, fly block, flyblow, flyblown, flyboat, fly book, flyboy, flybridge, flyby, fly-by-light, fly-by-night

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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

British Dictionary definitions for fly book

flybook

/ (ˈflaɪˌbʊk) /

noun

a small case or wallet used by anglers for storing artificial flies

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