Flyer

1. The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
2. One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
3. Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
4. A small operation not involving considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.
5. The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
6. One that uses wings.
7. The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.