Usually means: Fly fishing lure, floats water.
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  1. dry fly: Merriam-Webster
  2. dry fly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dry fly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dry fly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dry fly: Vocabulary.com
  6. dry-fly: Wordnik
  7. dry fly: Wiktionary
  8. dry fly: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. dry fly: Dictionary.com
  10. dry fly: Rhymezone
  11. dry fly: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dry fly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. dry-fly, dry fly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Dry fly: Sports Definitions

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▸ noun:  (fishing) A fly used in fly fishing, designed to float in or on the surface of the water

Similar:
wet fly, dropper, streamer, lake fly, fly line, fly fishing, nymphing, flymph, dobber, flyrod, more...

Opposite:
wet fly, nymph

Phrases:
Dry fly fishing, more...

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Similar:
wet fly, dropper, streamer, lake fly, fly line, fly fishing, nymphing, flymph, dobber, flyrod, more...

Opposite:
wet fly, nymph

Phrases:
Dry fly fishing, more...



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