fletcher
noun
a person who makes arrows.
fletchers
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pluralof fletcher.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"The lawn is full of fletchers," she announced on another occasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rest of the neighborhood—bakers, fletchers, candle-makers, booksellers, builders, painters, other historians—would have to pretend they had never been friends with him in the first place.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
The Questing Beast ran into them behind, knocking the King flat “Beware! Beware!” cried all the retainers, fishwives, falconers, farriers, fletchers, and other well-wishers who were assembled within.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
A Mr. Nicholas Colnet, a physician, also brought 3 archers, 20 surgeons, an immense retinue of labourers, artisans, fletchers, bowyers, wheelwrights, chaplains, and minstrels.
From About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
"Well-makers lead the water wherever they like, fletchers bend the arrow, carpenters bend a log of wood, wise people fashion themselves."
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
