FLY TIER

  

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FLY TIER

Specialty Definition: FLY TIER

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Occupations

Makes artificial fish flies and lures, using feathers, fur, thread, and fishhooks, according to prototype design: Clamps fishhook in vise and wraps thread around shank or hook. Pulls feathers or fur of specified color or type from quill or pelt, positions on hook, and wraps in place with thread. Repeats operation to simulate wings, legs, and tail of insect. Wraps thread or colored wire around shank of hook in continuous spirals to form body of insect. Ties and cuts off thread. May brush dope on windings to waterproof and hold them in place. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FLY TIER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fly tier

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FLY TIER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: flytier.

Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-r-t-y"

-1 letter: ferity, filter, flirty, lifter, rifely, trifle.

-2 letters: ferly, fiery, filer, filet, fitly, flier, flirt, flite, flyer, flyte, lefty, lifer, liter, litre, refit, refly, reify, relit, rifle, riley, tiler.

-3 letters: felt, file, fire, fley, flit, fret, frit, left, lief, lier, life, lift, lire, lite, lyre, reft, reif, rely, riel, rife, rift, rile, rite, tier.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: flytiers.

 

+2 letters: electrify, fertilely, fertility, furtively.

 

+4 letters: certifiably, differently, factorylike, falteringly, filamentary, fluorimetry, formatively, fruitlessly, imperfectly, infertility, interfamily, irrefutably, reflexivity, superfluity.

 

+5 letters: butterflying, deflationary, electrifying, farsightedly, federatively, figuratively, flatteringly, forestaysail, forgeability, frenetically, infrequently, interfaculty, perfectively, proficiently, profligately, reflationary, reflectively, reflectivity, refractively, refractorily, terrifically, terrifyingly, thriftlessly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: FLY TIER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 4C 59      54 49 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001100 01011001 00100000 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#76 &#89 &#32 &#84 &#73 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 0059      0054 0049 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

404659254433952

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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