n. a sheet of canvas or hide erected for protection against the weather.
- 1910  ". . . No bring um tent. Mebbe bring um fly? urn little fly?" / "No fly," Daylight answered decisively.
- 1947  . . . we cut some poles and with our toboggan wrappers made a fly.
- 1960  Next to them a frame of saplings supported a canvas fly.