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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

On the following day Simon appeared at Fletching in the vale of the Weald, some nine miles north of Lewes; there he encamped.

From England of My Heart : Spring by Hutton, Edward

Lord Sheffield's mansion at Fletching was the last great house he knew that was entirely warmed with charcoal, nothing else being burnt.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

On May 13 he encamped at Fletching, a village hidden among the dense oak woods of the Weald, some nine miles north of Lewes.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William

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