fletchings

/ ˈflɛtʃɪŋz /

plural noun

1. arrow feathers

Word History and Origins

Origin of fletchings¹

plural of fletching , from fletch

Example Sentences

Once soft organic materials — leather, textiles, arrow fletchings — surface, researchers have a year at most to rescue them for conservation before the items degrade and are lost forever.

From Seattle Times

Once soft organic materials — leather, textiles, arrow fletchings — surface, researchers have a year at most to rescue them for conservation before the items degrade and are lost forever.

From New York Times

Archer’s parents had been Catholic and there are markings on one side of the box possibly depicting arrow fletchings—an apt choice for a man named Archer.

From National Geographic

Whether it be cycling in the velodrome, archery at Lord's or gymnastics at the North Greenwich Arena, by the time action gets going all the spectators will know their keirins from their omniums, their bow sights from their fletchings and their double backward somersaults from their front hand springs.

From Reuters

He had been the hope of Sir Button Budd, Who bred him there at the Fletchings stud, But the Fletchings jockey had flogged him cold In a narrow thing as a two-year-old.

From Project Gutenberg