Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who fixes or prepares.
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- noun A person who maintains railway lines.
- noun Someone whose job is to
sand andgrind small imperfections frommetal andceramic castings . - noun by extension Someone who
fiddles ortinkers with things. - noun slang, UK, Lancashire A
friend ormate
Etymologies
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Examples
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A fettler is the man who cleans the machines in the mill.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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'What's a fettler, and what is to fettle a machine?' inquired Horatia with interest.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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CTS-V is the fastest production V8 saloon in the world, but extreme car fettler Hennessey Performance clearly doesn't think this is enough.
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CTS-V is the fastest production V8 saloon in the world, but extreme car fettler Hennessey Performance clearly doesn't think this is enough.
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Thcfe were the opinions of many of the fettler« in New-England.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. [from old catalog] 1795
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The offering a houfe and garden to a fettler gratis y may be an inducement to a wretch, who rather intends to beg than work, and he will be glad of the offer without any farther encouragement;. but if the Company wifn for induf - trious men, it mufl not only oifer them a free houfe and garden, but alio
Observations upon the present state of the Scotch fisheries [electronic resource] : and the improvement of the interior parts of the Highlands : being an essay on these subjects, given in to the Highland Society of Scotland ... Highland Society of Scotland 1791
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He is a rob - ber of the vileft fpecies, who degrades humanity, and dishonours the dignity and equity of executive juftice in a free government, by a condud fo lawlefs and barbarous; who thus ihuts up the avenoea of lenity, and fteals from the poor fettler in the colony, the hard earned fruits of induftry.
The Monthly Review 1774
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An European fettler can make but momentary eftbrts of war, in hopes to gain fomc point, that he may by it obtain a fcries of fccurity, under which to work his lands in peace.
Observations on the present state of the waste lands of Great Britain 1773
bilby commented on the word fettler
Australian (archaic) - a worker on railway lines.
December 6, 2007