Fletcher
['fletʃə]
Definition
(noun.) prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625).
Edited by Christine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
Typist: Margery
Examples
- The jolly Hermit at length agrees to venture thither, and to enquire for Jack Fletcher, which is the name assumed by the King. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Fletcher says it's no such thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fletcher may say that if he likes, but I say, don't Fletcher _me_! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I shaved Fletcher, Hawley's clerk, this morning--he's got a bad finger--and he says they're all of one mind to get rid of Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These were supplied in England from 1811 to 1840 by the genius of Bramah, Clement, Fox, Roberts, Rennie, Whitworth, Fletcher, and a few others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Simeon Halliday was there, and with him a Quaker brother, whom he introduced as Phineas Fletcher. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Edited by Allison