The action of flying; flight. • An act of flying. • A fly ball. • Ellipsis of fly route. • A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent. • The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent. • A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc. • The moving portion of an extendable ladder. • The free edge of a flag. • The horizontal length of a flag. • An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders. • The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows. • That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card. • 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. • Ellipsis of flywheel. • A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys). • In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch. • The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn. • A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk. • The person who took the printed sheets from the press. • A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work. • One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre. • Waste cotton.