Crossword-Solution: FLY 3 letters, 465 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Fly	v. i.	To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
Fly	v. i.	To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
Fly	v. i.	To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
Fly	v. i.	To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
Fly	v. i.	To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
Fly	v. i.	To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
Fly	v. t.	To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
Fly	v. t.	To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
Fly	v. t.	To hunt with a hawk.
Fly	v. i.	Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
Fly	v. i.	Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
Fly	v. i.	A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
Fly	v. i.	A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
Fly	v. i.	A parasite.
Fly	v. i.	A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
Fly	v. i.	The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
Fly	v. i.	The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
Fly	v. i.	That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
Fly	v. i.	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.
Fly	v. i.	A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
Fly	v. i.	The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
Fly	v. i.	The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
Fly	v. i.	A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
Fly	v. i.	Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
Fly	v. i.	A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
Fly	v. i.	The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
Fly	v. i.	One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
Fly	v. i.	The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
Fly	v. i.	A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
Fly	a.	Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.

We have 465 clues for the answer “FLY”

Clue	Answers
"A ___ Went By" (classic children's book)	1 answer
"That'll never ___"	1 answer
1986 Jeff Goldblum film, with "The"	1 answer
1986 sci-fi remake, with "The"	1 answer
AC/DC "___ on the Wall"	1 answer
Airborne picnic pest	1 answer
Aviate in dense fog, say	1 answer
BALL batted high	1 answer
Ball batted in the air.	1 answer
Ball to the outfield.	1 answer
Be airborne, or an airborne pest	1 answer
Be feasible, as a proposal	1 answer
Be successful, as a proposal	1 answer
Birds and bees do it	1 answer
Bluebottle, e.g.	1 answer
Bluebottle, say	1 answer
Bonds might catch it	1 answer
Insect with wings	1 answer
CONVEY by aircraft	1 answer
Can of corn, to Winfield	1 answer
Caught by Barry Bonds	1 answer
Certain fishing lure	1 answer
Certain parlor guest	1 answer
Cleg	1 answer
Coachman or herl	1 answer
Coachman or red quill.	1 answer
Compost heap visitor	1 answer
Take wing or function as a zipper feature	1 answer
Cool-looking, in slang	1 answer
Device used as bait.	1 answer
Do some aviating	1 answer
Do the American thing?	1 answer
Dragon or pop	1 answer
Elapse quickly	1 answer
Go quickly, as time	1 answer
Emulate Daedalus	1 answer
Emulate the jet set.	1 answer
End of remembrance	1 answer
Escape in haste	1 answer
Experience turbulence, maybe	1 answer
Eyes from a wall	1 answer
FLAG part	1 answer
Fielder's catch	1 answer
Fishing lure, sometimes	1 answer
GARMENT lap	1 answer
Go by Delta, say	1 answer
Go by jet, e.g.	1 answer
Go by space shuttle	1 answer
Go fast, as time	1 answer
Go over a lot of ground?	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TAREE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with FLY (5)

Think of mummy! Besides, I can’t fly.” “I’ll teach you.” “Oh, how lovely to fly.” “I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back, and then away we go.” “Oo!” she exclaimed rapturously.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

From the overhanging branches, From the tassels of the birch-trees, Soft the Spirit of Sleep descended; By his airy hosts surrounded, His invisible attendants, Came the Spirit of Sleep, Nepahwin; Like a burnished Dush-kwo-ne-she, Like a dragon-fly, he hovered O’er the drowsy head of Kwasind.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Well thou didst advise, Yet not for thy advise or threats I fly These wicked Tents devoted, least the wrauth Impendent, raging into sudden flame Distinguish not: for soon expect to feel His Thunder on thy head, devouring fire.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Tortoise and the Eagle A TORTOISE, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

When you go out of the house into the flower garden, there you feel again the order and fine arrangement manifest all over the great farm; in the fencing and hedging, in the windbreaks and sheds, in the symmetrical pasture ponds, planted with scrub willows to give shade to the cattle in fly-time.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with FLY (3)

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears." After all this time?""Always," said Snape.

J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

What was that?" Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner." Brill," Silk replied blandly, pulling his Murgo robe back on." Again?" Belgarath demanded with exasperation. "What was he doing this time?""Trying to fly, last time I saw him." Silk smirked. The old man looked puzzled." He wasn't doing it very well," Silk added. Belgarath shrugged. "Maybe it'll come to him in time.""He doesn't really have all that much time." Silk glanced out over the edge." From far below - ter…

David Eddings Magician's Gambit

Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

Charles R. Swindoll

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 250 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).