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Meanings of fly-catching in English
Feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air.
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Synonyms
Examples for "hawking"
Examples for "hawking"
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He liked hunting and hawking better than the cold practicalities of rule.
3
And they wouldn't want me hawking that information on the open market.'
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He tapped the forward control designs, and the hawking mat sped faster.
5
She even said you'd been flying a hawking mat that went down.
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The sallying schools of the Southern seas make their course to go.
2
Twenty times I was on the point of sallying forth after her.
3
Upon Lionel sallying out he found the utmost confusion and disorder reigning.
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The hounds were already sallying hither and thither, anxious and evidently expectant.
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What do you say, father, to our sallying out and pursuing them?
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Another familiar bird here, which I never met with in the North, is the gnatcatcher, called by Audubon the blue-gray flycatching warbler.
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They may be a development of a flycatching plant, or they may be a link between the animal and the vegetable kingdom.
Usage of fly-catching in English
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The flashing alertness of a fly-catching lizard, is it not proverbial?
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I was also sick of its fly-catching abilities and the cloying scent of watermelon.
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Then Bunch, grave as a judge, began to repeat: 'Plate-snatching, gravy-spilling, door-slamming, blue-bottle- fly-catching, and curtsey-bobbing.
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The kitchen was alive with flies, at least half of them still struggling on the long sticky fly-catching paper that hung around the room.
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I found a singular moth- and fly-catching, plant in this range; it exudes a gummy substance, by which insects become attached to the leaves.
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Then he went, but returned and said: "There's no water in the bucket-Motherused the last drop to boil th' punkins," and renewed the fly-catching.
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"They've landed below here, and maybe they're in town while we've got our mouths open, fly-catching around an empty car."
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"I am tired of scrabbling in the dust, and fly-catching is an amusement only suited to sparrows and such vulgar birds."