fettle

Shankland, for sure, will travel in brilliant fettle.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025

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

He was in fine fettle, sleek and well groomed and as debonair as ever, and had adapted himself so well that at times it appeared as though he were positively enjoying the whole expedition.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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

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

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

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

Then John he took Guy's bow in his hand, His bolts and arrows each one: When the sheriff saw Little John bend his bow, He fettled him to be gone.

From The Book of Brave Old Ballads by Sir John Gilbert

Theer niver was sich a dog as thot for bad temper, an' it did nut get no better when his tail hed to be fettled an inch an' a half shorter.

From Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

When, on a bright and sunlit morn, I rise refreshed and finely fettled Your cue is not to cheer but warn: "The further outlook is unsettled."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 by Various

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

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

What did the unrevealed God matter, when a man had a young family that needed fettling for?

From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

“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