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fletching

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[flech-ing] / ˈflɛtʃ ɪŋ /

noun

  1. the feathers on an arrow, which stabilize it during flight.


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In the first, a ship, the MV Fletching, came within 15 metres of the wreck.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2019

Fletching arrows, milking goats, gathering firewood, mucking out our stables ... the work is endless.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

He was buried in Fletching Churchyard, Sussex, in the family burial-place of his faithful friend and model editor, the first Lord Sheffield.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine

Gibbon's remains lie in Fletching church, close by.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

It was the dead of night, and a horseman rode towards the village of Fletching.

From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

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