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moose-fly
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any one of several species of horsefly, especially Chrysops.
See: bulldog fly
Quotations
1849
In short . . . the closeness is often times terrible to bear, especially as it is accompanied with . . . the horse-fly, which seems to take the bite out of the flesh; and the large moose or speckled-winged fly.
1953
Further south, where they are never so numerous, they [bulldogs] are called horse-flies, or moose-flies.