Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who makes arrows.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who fletches arrows; an arrow-maker; a maker of bows and arrows.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete One who fletches or feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
WordNet 3.0
- n. prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)
Etymologies
- Middle English fleccher, from Old French flechier, from fleche, arrow, of Germanic origin; see pleu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I was able, the one time it came up, to tell a caller that a fletcher was a person who made bows.”
“Write to Owen Fletcher at owen.fletcher @dowjones.com”
“Write to June Fletcher at fletcher.june@gmail.com.”
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“Write to Alexandra Fletcher at alexandra.fletcher @dowjones.com”
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“Write to June Fletcher at fletcher. june@gmail.com”
“Send questions and comments to June Fletcher at fletcher. june@gmail.com”
“Send your queries on all things housing to June Fletcher at fletcher. june@gmail.com For all these properties that don't fall under the new federal guidelines, the process is still likely to remain grueling, simply because it's complicated: Sellers have to document hardship.”
“Albin was a fletcher—an arrow maker, you know—and he was the one who taught her archery.”
“Just my opinion mind … … .. mark fletcher on Apr 22, 2008”
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“She'd hidden from a work crew, crouching, the fletcher cradled in her hands, her suit steel-gray, while the two slender Africans and their balloon-tired workcart passed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fletcher’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Last Names That Are Professions
Let's keep this to reasonably well known family names that are or used to be professions, trades, or arts.
fletcher, chandler, goldsmith, carpenter, cook, baker, draper, smith, mason, carter, cooper, mercer and 35 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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A Parthian Shot: Archery Words
Just what it says. Archery rocks.
bow, arrow, longbow, crossbow, barebow, recurve, compound bow, flight, arrowhead, nock, feather, yew and 197 more...
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Who Are You?
No one ever says, "I want to be a somnambulist when I grow up." But don't let that get in the way of organizing your Wordie lists.
chevalier, somnambulist, sommelier, troubadour, vicar, majordomo, caliph, polyglot, polymath, apprentice, nuyorican, privateer and 107 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Defunct professions
Economists like to cite "buggy whip maker" as an example of a profession whose career prospects were dimmed, and ultimately quenched, by the inexorable march of technological progress. This is a li...
buggy whip maker, guillemot egg col..., bog iron hunter, nettle string maker, fuller, purple maker, tanner, gut girl, reddleman, wont catcher, navvy, ratcatcher and 239 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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Archaic Occupations
Some of these professions still exist today but the word for them has changed; some (mason or boatswain, for example), are still in use but are included for their rich historical associations. Som...
yeoman, summoner, chandler, ostler, carter, chapman, slaver, mason, cordwainer, cooper, glazier, dyer and 187 more...
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Trades Featured in R. Campbell's The ...
Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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lotic words of flow
fast flowing, rapid, confluent words
boustrophedon, boustrophedric, thixotrophic, ludic, hesychastic, blend, quaquaversal, phacoemulsification, mordant, glissando, vatic, tournure and 233 more...
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Terms for People
pundit, puritan, cretin, popinjay, jackanape, schlemiel, diplomat, ambassador, partisan, apostle, disciple, puppet and 71 more...
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I made this!
People who make stuff.
milliner, jeweler, silversmith, cobbler, draper, goldsmith, locksmith, carpenter, joiner, baker, stonemason, wheelwright and 43 more...
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Smith is the Name
perfumer, cobbler, pewterer, tailor, saddler, locksmith, goldsmith, glazier, brazier, mangonnier, romainier, passementier and 77 more...
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working for a living
playwright, bard, conductor, squire, professor, lackey, swashbuckler, corsair, apothecary, hangman, embalmer, executioner and 58 more...
Tweets
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jennarenn There was a book that I read as a child where the main character dressed up as a fletcher for Halloween. I wish I could remember which one it was. Jul 18, 2007