Fettle biography

What does fettle‎ mean?

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fettle (English)

Origin & history

Old English fetel.

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Pronunciation

Noun

fettle(pl.fettles)

1. A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.
2. One's mental state; spirits.
3. Sand used to line a furnace.
4. (Geordie, Cumbria) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
      What's yer fettle marra?
5. (ceramics) a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces.
6. (UK, dialect) The act of fettling.

Usage

Outside of dialects, this term is a fossil, found only in the phrase in fine fettle.

Verb

fettle(third-person singular simple presentfettles, present participlefettling, simple pastfettled, past participlefettled)

1. (Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
• 1858 Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  He is getting his saddle altered: fettling about this and that; does not consider what danger he is in.
• 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia,