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/hɔrs flaɪ/ Listen

Horse fly

noun

Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals. Synonyms: cleg, clegg, horsefly.

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"Horse fly" Quotes from Famous Books

... hath joined the horse fly unto the horse Nor why the generous steed is yoked with the poisonous fly: Lest the steed should sink into ease and lose his fervour of nerve God hath appointed him this: ...

— Eyes of Youth - A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O. • Various

... us at the front entrance of the grounds, and, returning to the King's Arms, we ordered a one-horse fly for the fall of Lodore. Our drive thither was along the banks of Derwentwater, and it is as beautiful a road, I imagine, as can be found in England or anywhere else. I like Derwentwater the best of all the lakes, so far as I have yet seen them. Skiddaw ...

— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... going at a one-horse fly pace, had made its way with comfortable jaunting slowness from Riversford to St. Rest, its stout, heavy-faced driver being altogether unconscious that his fare was no less a personage than Miss Vancourt, the lady of the Manor. When a small, girlish person, ...

— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

... down, a pale Juno, in traveling costume; and a quarter of an hour before the time a pair-horse fly was at the door and Mr. Ashmead in ...

— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade