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Meanings of flycatching in English

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Feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air.

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Examples for "hawking"
Examples for "hawking"
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RELATED: Instagram hawking suddenly banned Instagram should really remove the Following tab.
News.com.au
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He liked hunting and hawking better than the cold practicalities of rule.
The river kings' road
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And they wouldn't want me hawking that information on the open market.'
Long time coming: a novel
4
He tapped the forward control designs, and the hawking mat sped faster.
The Hyperion Cantos
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She even said you'd been flying a hawking mat that went down.
The Hyperion Cantos
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The sallying schools of the Southern seas make their course to go.
The illuminatus! trilogy
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Twenty times I was on the point of sallying forth after her.
The Dew of Their Youth
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Upon Lionel sallying out he found the utmost confusion and disorder reigning.
By England's Aid; or, the Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604)
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The hounds were already sallying hither and thither, anxious and evidently expectant.
The Literary World Seventh Reader
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What do you say, father, to our sallying out and pursuing them?
Hendricks the Hunter; Or, The Border Farm: A Tale of Zululand
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The flashing alertness of a fly-catching lizard, is it not proverbial?
My Tropic Isle
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I was also sick of its fly-catching abilities and the cloying scent of watermelon.
The Guardian
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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.
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
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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.
The Irish Times
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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.
Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
Usage of flycatching in English
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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.
Wake-Robin
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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.
Spacehounds of IPC
Frequent collocations
Flycatching through the time