Ethan vs Fletcher - What's the difference?
ethan | fletcher |
* :
* 1889 John Langdon Heaton: The Story of Vermont: p.90 :
* 2001 , Alfred A. Knopf 2001, Back When We Were Grownups , ISBN 0375412530, page 88:
One who fletches or feathers arrows.
Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 38:
As a verb ethan
is .As a proper noun fletcher is
, from the profession of fletcher .ethan
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
- There have been Ethan' Allen mills, '''Ethan''' Allen stock companies, '''Ethan''' Allen fire companies and ' Ethan Allen streets. The name of the daring partisan leader has been used in Vermont much as that of Washington throughout the Union.
- They would have named him something dignified: Ethan , or Tristram. Something that couldn't easily be shortened.
Anagrams
* ----fletcher
English
Noun
(en noun)- In order that distant countries should be furnished with bowyers, fletchers, and arrow head makers, any of those workmen, not being freemen of London, might be sent by the appointment of the king's council, the lord chancellor, lord privy seal, or one of them, to inhabit the city, borough or town within the realm that was destitute of such artificers.
