different between highflyer vs highflier

English

Noun

highflyer (plural highflyers)

1. Alternative form of highflier
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     One Emigration follows another; grounded on reasonable fear, unreasonable hope, largely also on childish pet. The highflyers have gone first, now the lower flyers; and ever the lower will go down to the crawlers.

English

Alternative forms

• high flier, high-flier, high flyer, high-flyer, highflyer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??fla??(?)/

Noun

highflier (plural highfliers)

1. A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
2. (idiomatic) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
   • c. 1711, Jonathan Swift, Some Remarks Upon A Pamphlet, Entitl'd, A Letter To The Seven Lords Of The Committee, Appointed To Examine Gregg

     under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words

3. (fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.