fletching

[flech-ing]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Quickly, we were shopping for better bows and arrows, reading archery blogs for technique tips and talking earnestly about whether we needed our own fletching jig for replacing damaged feathers.

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The arrow had green-and-white fletching.

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

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When the Song’s artillerymen realised that these arrows continued to fly straight even after their fiery exhaust had burned away their feathers, they removed the fletching and the rocket was born.

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Kaede’s fingers trembled on the fletching of an arrow.

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