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
- n. One who fletches or feathers arrows.
- n. Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Will I Have to Sell Mom's House to Settle Debts?
“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 1073 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...
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