fettle
To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repairTo sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
Meaning
7 senses(Northern England, especially)To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
richten, reparieren, flicken
(intransitive)To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
ordnen, vorbereiten, arrangieren
(transitive)To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
auskleiden, ausfüllen
(Geordie, reflexive)To be upset or in a bad mood.
Divint fettle yersel ower that!
To remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
beschroten, beschneiden, putzen
(transitive)To machine away seam lines or more generally to make small adjustments to a component or machine to improve its fit or operation.
He wants to fettle his gearchange mechanism before the next competition.
(archaic, transitive)To prepare.
- remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)
Translations
1 languagesBy meaning 4
Origin
From Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepFrom Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepare (oneself) for battle, gird up; to shape; to be about to, or to ready (oneself) to stay; (adjective) shaped (well or poorly)”) [and other forms], which possibly:
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Forms
fettles, fettling, fettled, fettledWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.