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fletcher

UK/ˈflɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)//ˈflɛt͡ʃɚ/

fletcher noun: one who fletches or feathers arrows.

Noun

fletcher (plural fletchers)

  1. One who fletches or feathers arrows.
    • 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.1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […]...
    • In order that distant countries should be furnished with bowyers, fletchers, and arrow head makers, any of those workmen, not being freemen of London, might be sent by the appointment of the king's council, the lord chancellor, lord privy seal, or one of them, to inhabit the city, borough or town...1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 38
  2. A device to assist in fletching or feathering arrows.
    • I don't like using a fletcher, the single feather ones are too slow, and the three feather ones inaccurate.1940, Archery News, volumes 19-27, page 35
    • A fletcher that mechanically takes care of gluing feathers to arrow shafts is a great help in either making or repairing arrows.1941, School Shop, volume 1, page 12
  3. Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
    • Robert Frankham of Colchester, fletcher, or maker of bows and arrowy, did, by his will, dated the 20th of July, 1577, give a yearly rent-charge of thirteen shillings and four-pence out of a tenement and six acres of land in West Bergholt, for ever;1810, The history and antiquities of the borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex
    • Very speedily the Fletcher arrived. It was his trade, the making of bows and arrows, and the marks of the various makers were as well known to him as the marks on his own.1853, “A Narrative of Border Warfare”, in The United Service Magazine, page 402
  4. (UK, dated, dialectal, possibly) A weir or dam.
    • […] the defendants cut down and lowered, and kept and continued so cut down and lowered, a part of the bank of the said river, situate and being between the mill of the defendants and the mill of the plaintiff, and on a part of the said bank so lowered, built and erected, and kept and continued so...1831, Liggins v. Inge, T. T. 1831 (court case), in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts (1832), page 289
    • They [some boards] had been washed away from the fletcher by the flood.1896 September 5, Evesham Journal, quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary

Proper noun capitalized: Fletcher

Fletcher (countable and uncountable, plural Fletchers)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation, from the profession of fletcher.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • Two children who were killed in an attack on a Catholic school in Minneapolis have been identified by their parents as Harper Moyski, a "joyful" big sister, and Fletcher Merkel, who loved "any sport that he was allowed to play".2025 August 29, Max Matza, “A 'joyful' girl and a boy who loved sports - Victims in Minneapolis shooting identified”, in BBC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025
  3. A ghost town in California.
  4. An unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois.
  5. An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Indiana.
  6. A town in Henderson County, North Carolina.
  7. A village in Miami County, Ohio.
  8. A town in Comanche County, Oklahoma.
  9. A town in Franklin County, Vermont.
  10. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia.
  11. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
  12. A farming community in Chatham-Kent, south-western Ontario, Canada.
  13. An outer western suburb of Newcastle in the City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

fletcher meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

fletcher in Hindi

फ़्लेचर

fletcher in Tamil

வில் அம்புசெய்வோன்

fletcher in Marathi

फ्लॅचर, फ्लीचर, फ्लिचर

fletcher in Urdu

فلیچر
More languagesFewer languages
fletcher in Telugu
ఫ్లెచర్, ఫ్లీచర్
fletcher in Malayalam
ഫ്ലെച്ചർ, ഫ്ളെച്ചർ, ഫ്ലിച്ചർ
fletcher in Kannada
ಫ್ಲೆಚರ್
fletcher in Punjabi
ਫ਼ਲੈਚਰ
fletcher in Gujarati
ફ્લેચર, ફ્લૅચર
fletcher in Odia
ଫ୍ଲିଚର
fletcher in Nepali
फ्लेचर

Examples of fletcher in a sentence

  • Besides the bowyers and fletchers who made the bows and arrows, others were employed to keep them in repair: the pay of these men was sixpence a-day.1859, “The Arms, Armour and Military Usages of the Fourteenth Century”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 206, page 14:
  • An arrow maker is a fletcher, or, more exactly, one who feathers arrows.1955, “Sticks and Strings (A pot-pourri on bow and arrows from an article in "Michigan Conservation")”, in The Bowhunter, number 5, page 29:
  • Fletching jigs are available either as a single fletch unit or as a multi-fletcher, which can fletch up to six arrows at once.2014, Brian J. Sorrells, Guide to the Longbow: Tips, Advice, and History for Target Shooting and Hunting:
  • A fletcher is the tool that actually holds the arrow and sets the vane or feather in place while it is being glued.1992, by Randolph J. Hempton, Michigan Out-of-doors, volume 46, page 72:

Forms of fletcher

Noun
pluralfletchers
Proper noun
pluralFletchers

Plural of fletcher: fletchers

Origin of fletcher

Inherited from Middle English fleccher, from Old French flechier; equivalent to fletch + -er.

English occupational surname from the noun fletcher (“arrow-maker”). Sometimes confused with Flesher.

Words formed from fletcher

Phrases with fletcher

Questions about fletcher

What does fletcher mean?
Fletcher means one who fletches or feathers arrows.
What is fletcher in Hindi?
Fletcher in Hindi is फ़्लेचर. See Fletcher meaning in Hindi.
How do you use fletcher in a sentence?
Besides the bowyers and fletchers who made the bows and arrows, others were employed to keep them in repair: the pay of these men was sixpence a-day.
What part of speech is fletcher?
Fletcher can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fletcher?
Fletcher is pronounced /ˈflɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of fletcher?
The plural of fletcher is fletchers.

Words near fletcher in the dictionary

  1. fletazepam
  2. fletch
  3. Fletchall
  4. Fletchalls
  5. fletched
  6. fletcher
  7. Fletcher checksum
  8. Fletcher checksums
  9. Fletcher's checksum
  10. Fletcher's checksums
  11. Fletcherian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fletcher (page history and authors); Fletcher (page history and authors); fletcher (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Fletcher (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fletcher (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fletcher (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fletcher (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fletcher (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fletcher (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fletcher (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fletcher (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fletcher (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fletcher (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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