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fletcher¹

  • /ˈflɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/ UK

Rhymes with -ɛt͡ʃə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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

noun 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.
  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.
  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;
  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 b

Fletcher²

  • /ˈflɛt͡ʃɚ/ US

Sounds like fletcher · Rhymes with -ɛtʃə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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

proper noun Fletchers

  1. countable, uncountable A surname originating as an occupation, from the profession of fletcher.
  2. countable, uncountable 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".
  3. countable, uncountable A ghost town in California.
  4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois.
  5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Indiana.
  6. countable, uncountable A town in Henderson County, North Carolina.
  7. countable, uncountable A village in Miami County, Ohio.
  8. countable, uncountable A town in Comanche County, Oklahoma.
  9. countable, uncountable A town in Franklin County, Vermont.
  10. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia.
  11. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
  12. countable, uncountable A farming community in Chatham-Kent, south-western Ontario, Canada.
  13. countable, uncountable An outer western suburb of Newcastle in the City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: beaumont, maclean, aubrey, hutt, fleischer, arrowmaker, arrowsmith, flecher, fletching, fletch, fether, flinger, flocker, fléchette, flone, fifer

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noun a manufacturer of bows and arrows

Españolflechero
DeutschPfeilmacher, Bogenmacher
Ελληνικάτοξοποιός toxopoiós

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@misc{fletcher_2026,
  title = {fletcher},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fletcher},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}