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Fletching vs Fetching - What's the difference?

fletching | fetching |

As verbs the difference between fletching and fetching

is that fletching is present participle of lang=en while fetching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between fletching and fetching

is that fletching is attaching fins, such as halved-feathers to a projectile in order to stabilize its flight while fetching is the act by which something is fetched.

As an adjective fetching is

attractive; pleasant to regard.

fletching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • attaching fins, such as halved-feathers to a projectile in order to stabilize its flight;
  • the fins or feathers so attached.

    • fetching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attractive; pleasant to regard.
  • * 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
    • I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=6
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is fetched.
  • * 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
    • These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.