flymaker
English
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edit- Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Noun
editflymaker (plural flymakers)
- (fishing) One who makes artificial flies for use in fishing.
- 1881, John Harrington Keene, The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary Lore, the Capture of British Freshwater Fish, and Tackle and Tackle Making:
- Now the directions given are the basis as indicated of all artificial fly-making, and really but little can be here added to them with a view of further instructing the would-be flymaker.