noun one that uses wings.
2. flyer ·noun the fly of a flag: ·see fly, ·noun, 6.
3. flyer ·noun the fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
4. flyer ·noun anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, ·etc.
5. flyer ·noun one in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
6. flyer ·noun a small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.
7. flyer ·noun the pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin;
so called from their swift revolution. ·see fly, ·noun, 11.