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fletch⋅er

[flech-er]
–noun
a person who makes arrows.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME fleccher < OF flechier. See flèche, -er 2

Fletch⋅er

[flech-er]
–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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fletch·er   (flěch'ər)   
n.  One who makes arrows.

[Middle English fleccher, from Old French flechier, from fleche, arrow, of Germanic origin; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
Fletch·er   (flěch'ər)   
English playwright who collaborated with Francis Beaumont on romantic tragicomedies, including Philaster (1610) and The Maid's Tragedy (1611).
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fletcher 
"arrow-maker," c.1330 (as a surname attested from 1203), from O.Fr. flechier, from fleche "arrow," probably from Frank. *fliugica (cf. O.Low Ger. fliuca, M.Du. vliecke).
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