A surname originating as an occupation, from the profession of fletcher. / A ghost town in California. / An unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois.

One who fletches or feathers arrows. / A device to assist in fletching or feathering arrows. / Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

plural of fletcher

plural of Fletcher

simple past tense and past participle of fletcherize

(historical) A dietary system prescribing the repeated chewing of food until all taste is lost, and in abstention from food until very hungry.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fletcherize

present participle of fletcherize

(transitive, intransitive) To thoroughly chew (dozens or hundreds of times) before swallowing. / (figuratively, by extension) To consume, to devour, to bite, to chew over.

A practitioner of this dietary system.