fletcher
see also: Fletcher
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈflɛtʃ.ə(ɹ)/
Noun

fletcher (plural fletchers)

  1. One who fletches or feather#Verb|feathers arrow#Noun|arrows.
    • 1571, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. Contayned in II Bookes. […], imprinted at London, […]: By Thomas Marshe, OCLC 932903701 ↗; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: Printed for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, OCLC 642424485 ↗, book 2, page 148 ↗:
      This thing, if a man take not hede on, he may chaunce have cauſe to ſay ſo of his fletcher, as in dreſſinge of meate is commonlye ſayde of cookes: and that is, that God ſendeth us good feathers, but the devill noughtye fletchers.
  2. A device to assist in fletching or feathering arrows.
  3. Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
Translations
  • German: Pfeilmacher
  • Spanish: flechero

Fletcher
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈflɛtʃɚ/
Proper noun
  1. Surname, from the profession of fletcher.
  2. A ghost town in California.
  3. A town in North Carolina.
  4. A village in Ohio.
  5. A town in Oklahoma.
  6. A town in Vermont.



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