Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To feather (an arrow).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give way; yield; flinch.
- To cut, as fish, in strips, clear of bone, in order to prepare it for drying and smoking: chiefly in the past participle: as, fletched halibut.
- To feather, as an arrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To feather, as an arrow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archery The vane toward the back of an
arrow , used tostabilise the arrow during flight. - noun A large boneless fillet of halibut, swordfish or tuna.
- verb To feather, as an arrow.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will too.
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I use feathers on my arrows with compound an recurve thats what i was rasied using alot of huntters use plastic fletch are they better or just chepper to buy?
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I was in the same boat as you and sick of paying others to fletch my arrows at a couple bucks a pop.
I've been mighty hard on fletching over the past 3 yrs of having my bow. 2010
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I bought the red plastic Bohning single arrow, single fletch jig (about as simple as you can get) and have been able to get good results.
I've been mighty hard on fletching over the past 3 yrs of having my bow. 2010
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I was in the same boat as you and sick of paying others to fletch my arrows at a couple bucks a pop.
I've been mighty hard on fletching over the past 3 yrs of having my bow. 2010
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When arrows start to penetrate to the fletch just open the bag and repack the plastic and go again.
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And last but not least, you use fletch-dry or some kind of water repellent for your feathers.
Drop away rests or a 2 pronged rest, or a Whisker biscuit 2009
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And last but not least, you use fletch-dry or some kind of water repellent for your feathers.
Drop away rests or a 2 pronged rest, or a Whisker biscuit 2009
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When arrows start to penetrate to the fletch just open the bag and repack the plastic and go again.
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I bought the red plastic Bohning single arrow, single fletch jig (about as simple as you can get) and have been able to get good results.
I've been mighty hard on fletching over the past 3 yrs of having my bow. 2010
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