To travel very quickly.
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
To rain heavily.
To place inside a bucket.
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
A bucket bag.
A helmet.
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
A great deal of anything.
A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
A large amount of liquid.
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
A field goal.
The amount held in this container.
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
The basket.
The pitcher in certain orchids.
A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
To be in the winged adult stage.
To hunt with a hawk.
To be accepted, come about or work out.
To proceed with great success.
To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
A wing.
A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
A butterfly (combination of four options).
An act of flying.
One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
waste cotton
Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
Any similar, but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.
That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
The free edge of a flag.
The horizontal length of a flag.
A fly ball.
The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
Related terms: flyman
A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.