Flyer

1. n. A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one’s capital, or not in the line of one’s ordinary business; a venture.
2. n. One that uses wings.
3. n. The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
4. n. Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
5. n. One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
6. n. 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.
7. n. The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.