Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Fettle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In metallurgy, the lining of the hearth forming the working-bed of the puddling-furnace.
- noun The repairing or preparation of a machine or part of a machine.
- noun The process of cleaning castings after they leave the foundry sand, including the chipping off of runners, fins, and scabs, filing rough spots, cleaning sand from the surfaces, and cleaning out cores.
- noun The repairing of the hearth of a puddling-furnace by the use of iron ore rich in oxygen.
- noun In ceramics, the process of evening the glaze on the surface of biscuit-ware before it is tired in the glost-kiln.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Metal.), engraving A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
- noun (Pottery) The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
fettle . - noun UK A mixture of
ore ,cinders , etc., used toline thehearth of apuddling furnace . - noun The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried
clay ware .
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Examples
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I have heard the people here talk of "fettling" the hearth when they mean "clean up."
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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"Was there ever such a man?" said Mr. Mordacks to himself, as he rode back to Flamborough against the bitter wind, after "fettling" the affairs of the poor Carroways, as well as might be for the present.
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The fettling in the cabin and engine bay is incomparably purrr-fect.
The Best Sports Car, and Why to Skip It Dan Neil 2011
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For instance, publishing non-sensitive evidence information raw as soon as it is received, not at the end of the process after a lot of fettling.
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With songs like “Debe Kiki” singing about the afternoon train from Tom Price in W.A., “226” about the rail camp 226 miles along the Richmond line and “Kara 32” along the Mount Isa line, Father Tapim and his fettling gangs mapped outback Queensland and W.A. in song.
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A striking feature of the songs is that unlike much contemporary Indigenous song writing, the fettling gangs of Torres Strait Islanders in the sixties, seventies and eighties did not write predominately about home.
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The work was tough, the sun fierce and the bosses fiercer still, but Father Tapim and his fettling gangs had the strength of song and the solace of company along every sleeper and spike.
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Just don't invite Cyril for a group hug - unless you want your balls fettling.
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I have spent the last few years collecting, fettling, and sending-on sewing machines for a charity that supports self-reliance projects in Africa and elsewhere
Physiotherapy Helen Howes 2008
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I have spent the last few years collecting, fettling, and sending-on sewing machines for a charity that supports self-reliance projects in Africa and elsewhere
Archive 2008-05-01 Helen Howes 2008
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