Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of angling for fish with a rod and natural or artificial flies as lures.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
fly fishing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun angling with an artificial fly as a lure
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Examples
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A nearby lake is known as a fly-fishing haven for many, but some will pass that one to go to this 125-acre lake where gas boats are prohibited.
The Seattle Times 2011
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At Sandringham, Grandpapa took the boys hunting pheasant and grouse, while Charles took care to teach them the finer points of fly-fishing for salmon and sea trout on the river Dee at Balmoral.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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I was new to fly-fishing last year and Orvis and Cabela's were a big help.
New to fly fishing 2009
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Arthur Camden cherishes his hereditary membership in the Hanover Street Fly Casters, a fictitious fly-fishing group founded in 1878 by his great-grandfather and 11 other patrician businessmen.
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I was new to fly-fishing last year and Orvis and Cabela's were a big help.
New to fly fishing 2009
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He spent time in Europe and Aspen, and while in Chile fly-fishing, he heard about an opportunity that lured him back to business three months earlier than he had planned: His friend Gary Friedman became CEO of then-troubled Restoration Hardware.
Popchips CEO Keith Belling is 'poptimist' on healthy snacks 2010
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Giving such a dueling policy speech was something of a first for a just-stepped-down vice president, a role that is generally supposed to entail a comfortably obscure retirement spent fly-fishing and attending rubber-chicken fund-raisers.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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I predict Sarah Palin will book a fly-fishing trip but will decline an offer to appear in the Women in Waders calendar.
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He and his wife had a summer home in the Adirondacks, where in the brief vacations his career permitted him he indulged his admitted fondness for fly-fishing, and for the recreation few people outside his family knew he enjoyed: bird-watching.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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I predict Sarah Palin will book a fly-fishing trip but will decline an offer to appear in the Women in Waders calendar.
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