fettle
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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
Overall, markets go into Wednesday in pretty fine fettle.
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2023
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
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
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
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
The next day in the morning they fettled them to ride.
From The Lay of the Cid by Leonard Bacon
Three thousand Moors have mounted and fettled them to ride.
From The Lay of the Cid by Leonard Bacon
And now the Heirs of Carrión have fettled them to fare.
From The Lay of the Cid by Leonard Bacon
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
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
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
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
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