night fly
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[edit]Noun
[edit]night fly (plural night flies)
- (archaic) A moth that flies at night.
- 1888, John Bickerdyke, Flyfishing for Mullet:
- At night the fly fisher stands a better chance, and will now and again take a few fish on a white moth. The dressing of a night fly for mullet was described in the following letter, […]
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[edit]References
[edit]- 1908, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary.