fettle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Proper or sound condition.
2. n. Mental or emotional state; spirits: was in fine fettle.
3. n. Metallurgy Loose sand or ore used to line the hearth of a reverberatory furnace in preparation for pouring molten metal.
4. v. Metallurgy To line the hearth of (a reverberatory furnace) with loose sand or ore in preparation for pouring molten metal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bind; tie up.
2. To arrange; prepare; put in order; repair; mend.
3. To beat; thrash.
4. Toline(the hearth of a puddling-furnace). See fettling.
5. Fettled ale or porter, ale or porter sweetened with sugar and seasoned with a little ginger and nutmeg.
6. To potter; set about in a fussy, pottering way; do trifling business.
7. n. The state of being prepared, or in good repair or condition: as, he is in splendid fettle to-day.
8. n. A handle in the side of a large basket.
9. Neat; tight; handy.

Wiktionary

1. n. A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.
2. n. One's mental state; spirits.
3. n. Sand used to line a furnace.
4. n. A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
5. n. a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces.
6. v. To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
7. v. To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
8. v. To be upset or in bad mood.
9. v. In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
10. v. To repair or tune a bicycle.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To repair; to prepare; to put in order.
2. v. To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.
3. v. To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
4. n. The act of fettling.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a state of fitness and good health
2. v. remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)