Crossword clues for flitter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flitter \Flit"ter\, v. i.
To flutter. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Flitter \Flit"ter\, v. t.
To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards. [R.]
--Lowell.
Flitter \Flit"ter\, n. [Cf. G. flitter spangle, tinsel, flittern to make a tremulous motion, to glitter. Cf. Flitter, v. i.] A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fly with back-and-forth motion," 1540s, from flit with frequentative suffix. Flitter-mouse (1540s) is occasionally used in English, in imitation of German fledermaus "bat," from Old High German fledaron "to bat, to flutter." Related: Flittered; flittering. As a noun, from 1892.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment. 2 (context science fiction English) A small aircraft or spacecraft. vb. 1 to scatter in pieces 2 to move about rapidly and nimbly 3 to move quickly from one condition or location to another 4 to flutter or quiver
WordNet
Usage examples of "flitter".
Harskari was blown out like a candle flame and Aleytys was shivering convulsively with a weakness that left her with no grip in her arms or legs, with a mind that flittered about like the bits of light from a glitter ball turning in some cheap and gaudy palace of the dance.
He moved away until he could shed form, then he began flowing about the lawn, a flittering streak of light.
The thief dumped their satchels and weapons onto the remaining flitter and lashed them tightly.
Things flittered through the black skydome above us, sending curling swirls down through the mist.
The flitter brought them to i'Ramnau far faster than yhfiss'ue would have, and too fast for Arrhae's liking.
There was already movement outside, the sound of approaching military boots, and Arrhae remembered her first suspicion that the military flitter was carrying more than just H'daen's two dinner guests.
Having made arrangements for that, the man took Chives to his private flitter.
Approach the flitter whistling that, and Chives won't shoot you without investigation.
When good-byes had been said all around, the high priest made a gesture and a procession of priests bearing the largest and finest of the cat's-eye chrysoberyls began handing them to the guests and conveying them to the flitters.
She clattered down the steps, whipped Calypso's reins free from the rail as the men piled into the flitter.
There wasn't much copiloting to be done in a flitter, but Heris nodded.
There were too many of those deep, narrow valleys which might have swallowed up a grounded or crashed flitter, hiding it even from air survey.
He called for verbal confirmation, and the flitter told him in a no-nonsense contralto that it was ready for takeoff.
When they do not wish to provide sufficient capital assets-whether groundcars, flitters, or fusactors-those under pressure to complete the task at hand are put at greater risk.
Here the houses and the headquarters buildings were not set off by themselves but around an oval, the center point of which was a landing place for flitters and hoppers.