fettle

At the moment, you’re in fine fettle with a total of $2 million coverage.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025

Seemed in fine fettle when finishing second under top weight in heavy ground in Midlands Grand National.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024

Steely Dan opened the concert with a sprightly set of jazz-wise pop that Donald Fagen, in seemingly fine fettle after a recent hospital stay, capped with a shout-out to his late creative partner, Walter Becker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

Treasuries emerged from Thanksgiving in fine fettle, but other assets were a little slower off the mark in Asia, with traders' looking ahead to U.S. jobs and growth data next week.

From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2022

The Abel who was leaving was in better fettle, in all ways, than the Abel who had arrived in a hurricane, desperately clinging to a nail.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

To revert to my former example of its use—An injured cart is fettled by the wheel-wright; the wheelwright fettles the injured cart.

From Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 by Various

Rosey! sweet little posy Come to our garden fête; Our naughty young nettles shall be on their fettles, All stinging things to bate.

From The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by S. J. Adair Fitzgerald

A tackler is one who fettles looms when they get out of order.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh

Jaguar took me to a hangar in Monterey to meet the E-Type Zero, painted a swimming metallic bronze and fettled to a straightness that is itself wildly anachronistic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2018

Much modified and fettled by the Chinese, the ship is based on the Soviet Kuznetsov-class design.

From Economist ● Jan. 19, 2017

To have seene how these yeomen together fought Two howers of a summer's day; It was neither Guy nor Robin Hood That fettled them to flye away.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

To have seen how these yeomen together fought Two hours of a summer’s day; It, was neither Guy nor Robin Hood That fettled them to fly away.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick

The miller was big, bony, and strong, and so far was formidable; but being both numb and faint-hearted, Weightman easily fettled him off in the two first falls.

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin

Keep in mind: this was a result achieved without any fettling from the Cup series’ myriad new rules for the upcoming season, making it something for the sport’s many hardline fans to truly savor.

From Time ● Feb. 22, 2016

I have heard the people here talk of "fettling" the hearth when they mean "clean up."

From Sarah's School Friend by May Baldwin

“Eh, Tim Binder! there’ll be a rare job for thee feyther next spring, fettling up this wall, by t’ time we’ve done wi’ it.”

From We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

But Friedrich calculated there would be very considerable fettling and haggling on Daun's part; say a good Fortnight of Siege allowed;—and that, by dead-lift effort of all hands, the thing was feasible within that limit.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle

He is getting his saddle altered: fettling about this and that; does not consider what danger he is in.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle