fletching
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
“One might find arrows with the fletching perfectly preserved, with the sinew still in place, the glue that glued the feathers to the shaft,” says medieval and environmental archaeologist James Barrett.
From Nature ● Apr. 15, 2020
The shaft of the arrow is the plan and the fletching of the arrow is the tasks.
From Inc ● Jun. 6, 2013
The arrow whistled, its fletching catching a breeze, and it hit the target in its straw belly.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Stannis would have kept them busy building rafts and fletching arrows, yet even so the waiting would have been a hard thing to bear.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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