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Answer for the clue "Arrow maker ", 8 letters:
fletcher

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who fletches or feathers arrows. 2 Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fletcher is a masculine given name which may refer to: People : Fletcher Benton (born 1931), American sculptor, painter and kinetic artist Fletcher Bowron (1887-1968), long-serving Mayor of Los Angeles, California Fletcher Christian (1764–1793), mutineer ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fletcher \Fletch"er\, n. [OF. flechier.] One who fletches or feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. [Obs.] --Mortimer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"arrow-maker," early 14c. (as a surname attested from 1203), from Old French flechier "maker of arrows," from fleche "arrow," which is probably from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *fleug-ika- (compare Old Low German fliuca , Middle Dutch vliecke ), from ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 4185 Housing Units (2000): 1816 Land area (2000): 5.289955 sq. miles (13.700920 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.004846 sq. miles (0.012552 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.294801 sq. miles (13.713472 sq. km) FIPS code: 23760 Located within: ...

Usage examples of fletcher.

The plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and of all the dramatists, are a perfect commentary on the fashions of the day, but a knowledge of the fashions is necessary to a perfect enjoyment of the plays.

Thomas, and Heermann and Johnston all 2100-tonners of the Fletcher class.

Montemar Jukes, who Fletcher had brought aboard as a servant and promptly rated Rigger First Class.

To judge from Jukes and Xi, Fletcher was willing to tolerate a certain amount of slackness among his personal following.

Gifford, the old Puritans, who felt and asserted, however extravagantly, that there was an eternal law which was above all Borgias and Machiavels, Stuarts and Fletchers, have surely a right to a fair trial.

Fletcher, the printmaker only got famous because he murdered a lazy sculptor, who in turn had murdered a pushy painter, who had murdered a sell-out collage maker.

Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cab Galloway, Noble Sissle, Fletcher Henderson.

Crouched low in the shadows at the head of the stairs, he had a clear view of Fletcher, and through the spindly carved balusters of the railing he could see the vast open space beyond the balcony.

The armorers, fletchers, bowyers, and swordsmiths all stood to gain from the war.

Elven women sat in a circle carding wool, and in another area elven bowyers and fletchers worked on bows and arrows.

All the Fletchers and everything belonging to them were almost worshipped at Wharton Hall.

The Fletchers were great people, with great spirits, too good in every way for such baseness.

The old kings had died away, but the Fletchers and the Vaughans,--of whom she had been one,--and the Whartons remained, a peculiar people in an age that was then surrendering itself to quick perdition, and with peculiar duties.

Wharton, when the Fletchers or Everett were there, was freely used for that purpose.

John looked very black, for even with him the feeling about the Whartons and the Vaughans and the Fletchers was very strong.