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- noun Plural form of
fettler .
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Examples
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At times, the fettlers would pick us up on their trikes or four wheel trolleys and frequently steam engines going back and forth would do likewise.
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I remember one particular time, I was travelling in a train and a woman looked out and she said, "The fettlers are singing out paper, paper, they're not doing no work".
THE NAVVIES 2000
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It was called that because from time to time, fettlers, extra gang men were killed when carrying out their duties.
SAFETY 2000
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And when one looks today at the kind of vests that are being provided by the department for people working in that area so's that they'll be immediately observable by train drivers and the systematic placing of detonators in areas where fettlers are working, or gangs are carrying out any sort of re-railing.
SAFETY 2000
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'I suppose you mean fettlers (people who clean the machines) and piecers (those who join the pieces of wool or yarn together when it breaks),' she explained.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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'So you shall to-morrow, if you like, and then you'll see them two fettlers doing their work, as if they'd all day to fettle one machine,' replied Mr Clay.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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It's turning into a bit of a tunin 'day over here on TopGear. com First, we showed you the monstrous modified BMW X6 - we're sorry, we really are - and now here's a much more impressive tuning effort from German Porsche-fettlers Techart.
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Mr. Phelps, Mr. Webfter, and captain Mafon, Thefe were of the firft clafs of fettlers, and all except the min - irters were chofen magiftrates or governors of the co - lony.
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But, after the conquefl of Jamaica by the Englifh, one of the firft objefts of the fettlers on that ifland, was the great profit arifing from the logwood trade, and the facility Pacific Ocean, the moft northern of the of wi-efting Ibme portion of it from the Spaniards.
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The fettlers had their lands confirmed, and granted to be now held by the free tenure of foccage, expreffino - a cer - tain rent and independence.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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