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Fettle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Proper or sound condition.

n. Mental or emotional state; spirits: was in fine fettle.

n. Metallurgy Loose sand or ore used to line the hearth of a reverberatory furnace in preparation for pouring molten metal.

v. Metallurgy To line the hearth of (a reverberatory furnace) with loose sand or ore in preparation for pouring molten metal.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.

n. One's mental state; spirits.

n. Sand used to line a furnace.

n. A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.

n. a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces.

n. The act of fettling.

v. To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.

v. To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.

v. To be upset or in bad mood.

v. In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.

v. To repair or tune a bicycle.

v. (archaic) To prepare.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To repair; to prepare; to put in order.

v. To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.

verb-intransitive. To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.

n. The act of fettling.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To bind; tie up.

To arrange; prepare; put in order; repair; mend.

To beat; thrash.

Toline(the hearth of a puddling-furnace). See fettling.

Fettled ale or porter, ale or porter sweetened with sugar and seasoned with a little ginger and nutmeg.

To potter; set about in a fussy, pottering way; do trifling business.

n. The state of being prepared, or in good repair or condition: as, he is in splendid fettle to-day.

n. A handle in the side of a large basket.

Neat; tight; handy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a state of fitness and good health

v. remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)

Word Usage

"Without another word she left the room, clattering her heavy shoes at the door; and Mordacks foresaw a sad encounter on the morrow, without a good breakfast to "fettle" him for it."

Verb Form

fettled fettles fettling

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

fitness physical fitness remove get rid of

Cross Reference

fash

Form

in fine fettle fettling fettler

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

repair prepare

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

gell sniffle cackling