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One that uses wings.

See Flyer, n., 5.

One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer.

ool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise. Throstle cock, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

n plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.