fettle

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  1. noun Proper or sound condition.
  2. noun Mental or emotional state; spirits: was in fine fettle.
  3. noun Metallurgy Loose sand or ore used to line the hearth of a reverberatory furnace in preparation for pouring molten metal.
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  • By the time I found it ;and all the while I was watching myself pound the bar for the barkeep ;I was really in fine fettle, just about ready to collapse. —  COPYRIGHT 1940, 1947, 1948
  • "No. Alive, in fine fettle, and glad to meet a recognizer, fan, and fellow reader here!" —  I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC! - Ray Bradbury
  • Classy, fettle-friendly all-rounder Last Updated: Wed 11 Mar, 9: 24 pm UTC —  Search Bicycle Trails
  • And the hot chick factor is in fine fettle - singer Dhana Taprogge looks like Tina Fey with big bazoongas. —  Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life
  • If Republicans are going to vote against the bill even with concessions that were put in there to get them to vote for it, hypocrisy quotient is in fine fettle: —  Comments from Left Field
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. From Middle English fetlen, to make ready, possibly from Old English fetel, girdle.

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  1. from Middle English (North.) fetllen, fetlen, bind, arrange, prepare. Origin uncertain; perhaps orig. ‘bind,’ from Anglo-Saxon fetel, a belt, girdle: see fetter, n. Icelandic fitla (little used), touch with the fingers, fidget, Swedish dial, futtla, fumble with the fingers, and a large number of similar forms, with similar senses, in Low German, HG., etc., offer no explanation of the English word. See fit, v.
  2. from fettle, v. In sense 2, cf. Anglo-Saxon fetel, a belt: see fettle, v.
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