Definition of "fletcher" in inglés

noun

1. One who fletches or feathers arrows.

2. A device to assist in fletching or feathering arrows.

3. Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

4. (UK, dialect, possibly dated) A weir or dam.

   • […] the defendants cut down and lowered, and kept and continued so cut down and lowered, a part of the bank of the said river, situate and being between the mill of the defendants and the mill of the plaintiff, and on a part of the said bank so lowered, built and erected, and kept and continued so built and erected, a certain weir or fletcher, and by that means caused large quantities of the water of the said river, which otherwise would, and always before had, and still of right ought to have flowed to and through the plaintiff's mill, to flow in a new course or channel, […] and the said weir or fletcher, built and erected there by the defendant Inge in the month of June 1822; […]
   • They [some boards] had been washed away from the fletcher by the flood.