night fly

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Noun[edit]

night fly (plural night flies)

  1. (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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References[edit]

  • 1908, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary.
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