fletcher

[flech-er]

noun

a person who makes arrows.

Origin of fletcher

1350–1400; Middle English fleccher < Old French flechier. See flèche, -er²

Fletcher

[flech-er]

noun

John,1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.

John Gould,1886–1950, U.S. poet.

a male given name.

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Examples from the Web for fletcher

Every time I returned to taste with Fletcher, he shared his own stories before we dove into the flight.
The Mr. Miyagi of Wine Sommeliers|Jordan Salcito|March 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fletcher learned of the Court while reading an article in a local paper about a man in Las Vegas who had passed the exam.
The Mr. Miyagi of Wine Sommeliers|Jordan Salcito|March 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Former NATO commander James Stavridis, now dean of the Fletcher School, takes much the same view.
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I worked with the incredible Adam Shankman and his assistant at the time Anne “Momma” Fletcher.
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During one intense episode, Fletcher makes the boy play so hard his hands bleed, covering his drum sticks and set with blood.
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The first, third and fourth are names of plays by Beaumont and Fletcher.
Essays|Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mr. Fletcher was violently impelled against George; to save a fall clutched him.
Once Aboard The Lugger|Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
Long afterwards it passed into the hands of a Mr. Fletcher, by whom the existing mansion was erected.
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His Beaumont and Fletcher, 1647, which has been lately trotted up to a startling figure by the Americans, cost me 30s.
The Confessions of a Collector|William Carew Hazlitt
Panthea is innocent, but insipid; Mardonius a good specimen of what Fletcher loves to exhibit, the plain honest courtier.
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2|Henry Hallam

British Dictionary definitions for fletcher

fletcher

noun

a person who makes arrows

Word Origin for fletcher

C14: from Old French flechier, from fleche arrow; see flèche

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John . 1579–1625, English Jacobean dramatist, noted for his romantic tragicomedies written in collaboration with Francis Beaumont, esp Philaster (1610) and The Maid's Tragedy (1611)

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Word Origin and History for fletcher

fletcher

"arrow-maker," early 14c. (as a surname attested from 1203), from Old French flechier, from fleche "arrow," probably from Frankish *fliugica (cf. Old Low German fliuca, Middle Dutch vliecke).

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