dry fly

1. 1.

   a fly (fisherman's lure) that skims the surface of the water

   Antonymswet fly

   Broaderfly

Questions about dry fly

What does dry fly mean?

dry fly means "a fly (fisherman's lure) that skims the surface of the water".

What is the opposite of dry fly?

The recorded antonyms are wet fly.

Is dry fly a common word?

dry fly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.