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  fletcher

  noun

  a person who makes arrows.
• Fletcher
  Fletcher

  noun

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

fletcher

¹ American  

[flech-er] / ˈflɛtʃ ər /

noun

• fletchers
  plural

1. a person who makes arrows.

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Fletcher ² American  

[flech-er] / ˈflɛtʃ ər /

noun

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

2. John Gould, 1886–1950, U.S. poet.

3. a male given name.

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Fletcher ¹ British  

/ ˈflɛtʃə /

noun

1. 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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fletcher ² British  

/ ˈflɛtʃə /

noun

1. a person who makes arrows

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• fletchers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of fletcher

1350–1400; Middle English fleccher < Old French flechier. See flèche, -er ²

Example Sentences

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J Evans, j oshea, s fletcher and C Adam, to name just a few.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2015

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From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2010

Our archers made themselves butts to shoot at, because we had many that delighted in that exercise, and wanted not a fletcher to keep our bows and arrows in order.

From Sir Francis Drake Revived by Philip Nichols

Master Hobbes, of the city of Winton, is a fletcher, and his arrows are well known as the very best in the country.

From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Donnan Smith, a worthy archer and a good fletcher, has devised a spring clamp which holds the feather while being cut.

From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope

Tyler Fletcher was taken to the United States but did not feature.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

“By default, that means they are not open for services to the population,” Fletcher said of the medical facilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“As long as we’re inspired, angry and willing to learn, we’ll keep making music,” Fletcher says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Joe Marler tells BBC Sport's Alex Fletcher about the benefits of cycling.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

At any rate she seemed to have forgotten Mother Fletcher.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers

"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

We have also the asp, whereof our fletchers make their arrows.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison