Home › Words › F › flymakerflymakerflymaker means one who makes artificial flies for use in fishing.EtymologyFrom fly + maker.nounOne who makes artificial flies for use in fishing.e.g.“Now the directions given are the basis as indicated of all artificial fly-making, and really but little can be here added to them with a view of further instructing the would-be flymaker.” — 1881, John Harrington Keene, The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary Lore, the Capture of British Freshwater Fish, and Tackle and Tackle Making:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.flyfisher 77% match — A person who goes fly fishing. vs flymaker →flyrodder 74% match — An angler who fishes with a flyrod. vs flymaker →flyrod 63% match — a thin, flexible fishing rod designed to cast an artificial fly vs flymaker →fishfly 62% match — A mayfly. vs flymaker →arrowmaker 62% match — A person who makes arrows. vs flymaker →bowfisher 61% match — One who engages in bowfishing. vs flymaker →whitefisher 61% match — One who fishes for whitefish. vs flymaker →angler 60% match — A person who fishes with a hook and line. vs flymaker →