fettle

Dangerous talk, of course, but they're in decent fettle one week out from the biggest game of their international lives.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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

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

Three thousand Moors have mounted and fettled them to ride.

From The Lay of the Cid by Leonard Bacon

Ay, but you’ve fettled things nicely, the lot of you, While I tramped the hungry roads.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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

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

“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

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

From Sarah's School Friend by May Baldwin

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