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- noun Alternative spelling of
fly box .
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Examples
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He hesitated, twisting his fly-box into a paper creature with four legs.
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He went straight over to the window and brushed out the crumbs of sugar; then he took his fly-box and emptied it outside, and threw away the box: then he shut the window and crossing over, sat down on his bed.
Dracula 1897
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Then he looked through his fly-box in despair, and picked out an old three-nought Prince of Orange -- a huge, gaudy affair with battered feathers, which he had used two years before in flood-water on the Restigouche.
Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892
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