The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flyman \Fly"man\, n.; pl. Flymen (-m?n). The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.
Wiktionary
n. (context UK English) Someone who drives a fly-coach.
Wikipedia
Flyman may refer to:
- Flyman (theater), one who manipulates curtains and scenery
- The Fly (Red Circle Comics), a fictional character
- Pseudonym for the founder of the Russian Business Network
Usage examples of "flyman".
Old Jakie, from his flyman days, remembers her playing the juve lead in some play or other at the Apollo always very nice to him, she was, gave him many a fag.
I could have felt to it like poor Flitch, the flyman, who was the finder.
I heard from the flyman who drove me from the station to the inn that he had brought you here yesterday.
Somehow the flyman made it to the stage floor in far less time than I would have thought possible.
Not to be outdone, Thrale recalled that Quin had killed no less than two of his fellow thespians, though not at the same time--one in a duel at Hampstead and a second by bribing a flyman to drop a weight on his adversary in the middle of Coriolanus.
Yet there was Old Jakie where Alex had left him, laid out on the bar counter like lamb and salad, now with fifty-pee pieces over his eyes, and there were the two flymen, together with a huddle of cronies from the Princess of Teck.
With martyred sighs, the flymen prepared to carry the dead body out, one attending to his torso, the other to the lower limbs.
If the two flymen had still been here with Old Jakie they could have passed as a funeral procession.
Old Jakie at the Coach but caught up with him at the Wellington, where the two flymen seemed to be conducting something of an impromptu funeral service on Quaker lines.
When last seen by Alex and James, the two flymen were preparing to escort Old Jakie to the Shamrock Club in Camden Town, where although not a member and not even Irish, he had always been made most welcome.
James looked up to see the two flymen coming down into the club, but without the burden of their lately departed friend.
However, the two flymen were at the bar, and Detective Sergeant Bone very kindly allowed them to buy him his next Scotch.
The two flymen instigated a debate on the need for the return of capital punishment.
Because of my mechanical bent I took pleasure in all the mechanism of a fine theatre, and wanted to know how the flymen and scene-shifters organized their work, how the electrician contrived his magic, and how Macgregor controlled it all with signal-lights from his little cubby-hole on the left-hand side of the stage, just inside the proscenium.