ant-flyn.
/ˈant flʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈænt ˌflaɪ/ Chiefly Angling.
A winged ant (esp. as used for bait); (in later use) an artificial fishing bait in the form of a winged ant.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > winged
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1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 221 Take the blackish Ant-fly out of..the Ant-hil. View more context for this quotation
1747 H. Miles in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 354 Winged Ants commonly known by the Name of Ant-Flies.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 117 The little Red and Black Ant-Flies come on about the tenth or twelfth of August.
1837 J. Kirkbride Northern Angler 44 The Red Ant Fly... The larger one comes on in July, in very hot weather, the smaller one in August.
1908 Country-side 7 Nov. 299/3 The gamekeeper..had examined several dead partridges, and had found their gullets and breasts full of ant-flies undigested.
1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Sept. (Weekend section) 49 (caption) A late-season trout, taken on an ant-fly.
2012 C. Allen Fly Fishing for Sea-run Cutthroat xii. 103 I carry lots of ant flies when I fish fresh water.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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