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🏹 A feather on arrow 🏹 To add feathers
to fletch

to fletch

1 9.9
To attach feathers to an arrow so it flies straight
  • verb
  • /flɛtʃ/
  • Specialized
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  • The archery expert taught the students how to fletch arrows using colorful vanes.
  • fletched arrow
  • green-fletched
  • white-fletched

Examples

  • Laughing, he snatched up her weapons—the bow, the quiver full of white-fletched, green-cocked arrows, and the knife.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Joze's heart seemed to wither in his chest when he saw the white and green-fletched arrow in Islief's broad hands.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Each spear was fletched at the back end with two straight feathers and indented with a notch in the butt.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • He carefully fletched the arrows with feathers to ensure they would fly accurately.

  • Before the competition, she fletched her arrows to improve their stability in flight.

Synonyms

to flight
vsto fletch
  • Archaic
2 9.4

To put feathers on an arrow to help it fly straight

attaches feathers specifically to make the arrow fly straight
to fledge
vsto fletch
  • Archaic
1 9.8

Add feathers to an arrow or a costume

attaches feathers specifically to ensure straight flight

Surface Forms

fletch infinitive
fletched past
fletched past participle
fletching present participle
fletches third person singular

Etymology

To fletch comes from the same French root flèche meaning 'arrow' and is related to fletcher, which means 'arrow maker'. To fletch means to put feathers on an arrow so it will fly straight.