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High flyer?
Answer for the clue "High flyer? ", 4 letters:
kite
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Word definitions for kite in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bird of prey ( Milvus ictinus ), Old English cyta "kind of hawk," probably imitative of its cries (compare ciegan "to call," German Kauz "screech owl"). The toy kite first so-called 1660s, from its way of hovering in the air like a bird. The dismissive ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kite \Kite\ (k[imac]t), n. [OE. kyte, AS. c[=y]ta; cf. W. cud, cut.] (Zo["o]l.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvin[ae] , of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail. Note: The European species ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind ...
Usage examples of kite.
Pendyke bore the name of Kite, and in Saxon times the Birts of Deorhyst, and the Kitels of Pendyke, were mighty hunters in the forest, and many a wolf and many a wild boar fell before their spears.
The majority involved promissory notes, loans supported by other loans, kited checks, and lines of credit cosigned by figmentary personages.
Gopher Key, and I laid out a nice swallow-tail clutch next to his plate, and all he done was grunt out something cantankerous about halfwit foking crackers setting out kite eggs where they was most likely to get broke.
Without this clue to the character of the revolution, the remark of Milton that the wars of the Saxon heptarchy were as unintelligible as those of kites in a neighbouring wood, would apply to the proceedings of the Parisians.
Except the two white men, followed by Mahommed Babar and trailed by the naked jungli, the only moving objects were kites circling above the trees, who followed the view of two rifles on general principles.
While others rode the kite skies with whistle-drumming membrances, or periscoped up with long boaconstrictor necks from smoking bogs, or grasped at the teeming sky as they sank to vanish in tombs of black tar, lost in the billion years that had summoned the old man awake.
May we and ours die the death of dogs, and our bones be thrown to the jackals and the kites, if we break the oath!
There being no burial grounds around Blackberry Patch itself, the Blackberry Patchers, when they find that their days have about run out on them, go by kite and suit to the secret place with the secret name: but the joking name for it is the Elephant Graveyard in the Sky.
The years fell away and 80 NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET 81 Dan was just a ten-year-old, and he and Sooey Wan were making red dragon kites in the kitchen and planning to fly them the following Saturday from Twin Peaks.
My desire was making him sluggish, as if I were a cool, fizzy spumante that packed the necessary punch to exalt his senses and send him high as a kite.
The graceful birds usually detected the unsuspecting susliks while soaring in the air, but the kite could also hover like a kestrel, the native falcon, or fly very low to take its prey by surprise.
He finished by affixing pairs of long feathers, found near the river, from the numerous white-tailed eagles, falcons, and black kites that lived in the region feeding on the abundance of susliks and other small rodents.
The Swath, fighting to regain control of my kite, until the automatic cutoff kills the synch just nanoseconds before impact.
Fackelmann and Kite, though he, Gately, had had his own digit-breaking and then later burglary career, and his own fences, and tended more and more to cop his own scrips and his own Percocets and then later Demerol.
Once I had thought I might even live there, with the big wayang kulit puppets, batik pillows, and dragon kites hanging from the ceiling.