fly

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sheet of canvas or hide erected for protection against the weather.

Quotations

1910

". . . No bring um tent. Mebbe bring um fly? urn little fly?" / "No fly," Daylight answered decisively.

1947

. . . we cut some poles and with our toboggan wrappers made a fly.

1960

Next to them a frame of saplings supported a canvas fly.