fettlen.¹

Brit.

/ˈfɛtl/, U.S.

/ˈfɛd(ə)l/, Scottish English

/ˈfɛtl/

Etymology: Old English fętel = Old High German fez̧z̧il (Middle High German vez̧z̧il, German fessel) chain, band, Old Norse fetill bandage, strap, < Old Germanic *fatilo-z, < root fat- to hold.

Obsolete exc. Scottish and dialect.

a. In Old English: a girdle, belt.

ΚΠ

c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxvii. §1 Mid fetlum & mid gyldenum hylt sweordum.

a1000 Boeth. Metr. xxv. 19 Sweordum & fetelum.

b. A bandage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun]

swathec1050

blood benda1250

blood bandc1300

bondc1384

whip1504

trusser1519

swath-band1556

swaddlea1569

winding band1582

deligature1583

ligation1598

bandage1599

fettle1599

ligament1599

selvage1599

swathe1615

swaddlings1623

anadesm1658

fasciation1658

girt1676

platysma1684

flannels1723

fillet1802

sealing1862

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 306/2 We must rowle the same [a wound] with narrowe rowles, or with Fetles, accordinge to the constitution of the disease.

c. A handle in the side of a large basket, etc. Also attributive, as fettle strap.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > of specific tool

crankc1000

steal1377

pipe1397

pot-hook1397

shaft1530

fork-shafta1642

bell-handle1768

hasp1770

fettle1812

panhandle1890

1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Caithness 69 Each cassie has a fettle or handle in each side.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Fettel, a cord used to a pannier.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Fettle-strap, the strap which sustains a pannier.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fettlen.²

Brit.

/ˈfɛtl/, U.S.

/ˈfɛd(ə)l/

Etymology: < fettle v.

1. Condition, state, trim; in (to be) in (good, high, etc.) fettle. Also in plural the points, ‘ins and outs’ (of anything); but this may belong to fettle n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > good or bad condition or order

point?c1225

plighta1375

waya1400

ply1443

ploy1477

abyss1548

order1569

kilter1582

trim1628

tilter1674

fettle?1748

kidney1763

fix1816

?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) (Gloss.) Fettle, dress, case or condition.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 23 Her tongue for fear tint fettle in her cheek.

1804 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 90 We were young, and beath i' fettle.

1829 H. D. Best Personal & Lit. Mem. 365 A critic, who knows what the north-countryman calls the fettles of the business, may suspect an equivocation.

1850 H. L. Lear Tales Kirkbeck 2nd Ser. 270 I'm in terrible poor fettle with the toothache.

1857 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life (ed. 2) A Shetland pony in good fettle.

1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table xii. 394 The young man John is..‘in fust-rate fettle’.

1890 W. Beatty-Kingston in Fortn. Rev. May 729 It would..be surprising were they not in fine fettle.

2. The material used for ‘fettling’ a furnace.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for lining or building up a furnace

furnace-earth1612

fix1873

bulldog1881

fettle1894

1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 420/2 The molten metal is thoroughly stirred or ‘rabbled’ to make it uniform and secure the incorporation of the ‘fettle’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fettlev.

Brit.

/ˈfɛtl/, U.S.

/ˈfɛd(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English–1500s fettel, Middle English–1600s fetle, (Middle English fettil, fetyl), Middle English–1500s fetel(e, 1800s dialect fottle, Middle English– fettle.

Etymology: Possibly < Old English fętel, fettle n.¹; the primary sense would then be ‘to gird up’.

a. transitive. To make ready, put in order, arrange. Now only dialect to put to rights, ‘tidy up’, scour; also, to groom (a horse), attend to (cattle).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)]

rightlOE

attire1330

ettlea1350

to set (also put) in rulea1387

redress1389

dress?a1400

fettlea1400

governc1405

yraylle1426

direct1509

settlec1530

tune1530

instruct1534

rede1545

commodate1595

square1596

concinnate1601

concinnea1620

rectify1655

fix1663

to put (also bring) into repair1673

arrange1802

pipeclay1806

to get together1810

to do up1886

to jack up1939

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > prepare or put in order

tailc1330

ordain1340

disposec1375

appoint1393

fettlea1400

tifta1400

richc1400

tiffc1400

orderc1515

instruct1534

prune1586

compose1612

to make up1759

fix1783

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [verb (transitive)] > tend cattle

suec1400

fettle1880

a1400–50 Alexander 626 And faste by his enfourme was fettild his place.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 656 Now alle þese fyue syþeȝ, forsoþe, were fetled on þis knyȝt.

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 38 In þe tyxte þere þyse two arn on teme layde, Hit arn fettled in on forme.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 585 He þat fetly in face fettled alle eres.

1541 Schole House of Women sig. Ci^v Our fyly is fetlyd vnto the sadle.

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. To fettle th' tits, to dress the horses.

1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey xi. 169 I..fettled up th' fire place a bit.

1864 T. Clarke in Kendal Mercury 30 Jan. Woif hed fottled him a noice loil poi i' thoon.

1880 Dorothy 46 I can..Fettle both horses and cows.

b. technical. To line (a puddling furnace, etc.); to scour (rough castings).

ΚΠ

1881 C. R. A. Wright in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 324/1 In fettling the furnace either oxide of iron bricks moulded to fit the furnace are built in, or, etc.

1884 Imp. & Mach. Rev. 1 Dec. 6716/2 A castings-cleaner, capable of holding a ton of rough castings and fettling them in an hour.

c. To ‘do for’ (a person), to beat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person

to-beatc893

threshOE

bustc1225

to lay on or upon?c1225

berrya1250

to-bunea1250

touchc1330

arrayc1380

byfrapc1380

boxc1390

swinga1400

forbeatc1420

peal?a1425

routa1425

noddlea1450

forslinger1481

wipe1523

trima1529

baste1533

waulk1533

slip1535

peppera1550

bethwack1555

kembc1566

to beat (a person) black and blue1568

beswinge1568

paik1568

trounce1568

canvass1573

swaddle?1577

bebaste1582

besoop1589

bumfeage1589

dry-beat1589

feague1589

lamback1589

clapperclaw1590

thrash1593

belam1595

lam1595

beswaddle1598

bumfeagle1598

belabour1600

tew1600

flesh-baste1611

dust1612

feeze1612

mill1612

verberate1614

bethumpa1616

rebuke1619

bemaul1620

tabor1624

maula1627

batterfang1630

dry-baste1630

lambaste1637

thunder-thump1637

cullis1639

dry-banga1640

nuddle1640

sauce1651

feak1652

cotton1654

fustigate1656

brush1665

squab1668

raddle1677

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slam1691

bebump1694

to give (a person) his load1694

fag1699

towel1705

to kick a person's butt1741

fum1790

devel1807

bray1808

to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813

mug1818

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821

welt1823

hidea1825

slate1825

targe1825

wallop1825

pounce1827

to lay into1838

flake1841

muzzle1843

paste1846

looder1850

frail1851

snake1859

fettle1863

to do over1866

jacket1875

to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877

to take apart1880

splatter1881

to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886

to do up1887

to —— (the) hell out of1887

to beat — bells out of a person1890

soak1892

to punch out1893

stoush1893

to work over1903

to beat up1907

to punch up1907

cream1929

shellac1930

to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931

duff1943

clobber1944

to fill in1948

to bash up1954

to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976

to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983

beast1990

becurry-

fan-

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii, in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 385/2 Tom offered to..fettle him over the head with a brick.

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) (at cited word) A mother will threaten her child ‘I'll fettle thee’.

d. To mull (ale or porter); see fettled adj.

†2.

a. reflexive and intransitive for reflexive. To get (oneself) ready; to prepare; to address oneself to battle. Obsolete exc. dialect (see quot. 1855).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (reflexive)]

yarec888

yarkc1000

graithc1230

dightc1275

to make yarec1290

arrayc1320

tirec1330

agraith1340

buska1350

readya1350

dressc1350

shapec1374

disposec1375

ordainc1380

rayc1380

makec1390

bouna1400

updressa1400

fettlec1400

address1447

ettlec1450

aready1470

to make oneself forth1488

busklea1555

poise1639

arrange1865

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)]

fightc900

to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1297

to do battle1297

to give battle1297

strive13..

battle1330

to instore a battle1382

fettlec1400

pugnec1425

toilc1425

to deliver battle1433

conflict?a1475

bargain1487

mellaya1500

liverc1500

to come out1511

field1535

combat1589

to manage arms1590

sway1590

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)]

buskc1330

agraith1340

to make readya1382

arraya1387

providec1425

prepare1517

addressa1522

apparel1523

bouna1525

buckle1563

to make frecka1572

fettle?c1600

fix1716

to set into ——1825

to show foot1825

ready1878

to fang a pump, (loosely) a well1883

prep1900

to get (oneself) organized1926

to sharpen one's pencil1957

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 435 On a felde he fettelez hym to bide.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xvi. 197 The Scottis..Tuk the feld, and manlykly Fetlyt wyth thare fais in fycht.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 46 He..sels his Teme and fetleth to the warre.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxi. xvi. 402 They rather trembled..than fetled themselves to consultation.

?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 306 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 242 Every ryncke to his reste full radlie him dressed, Beten fires full fast, and feteled them to sowpe Besides Barwick in a banck.

1674 J. Ray N. Country Words Fettle, to set or go about any thing.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 56 ‘We are just fettling for off.’

b. To busy oneself; to fuss.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > bustle

buskle1545

bustle1548

buffle1610

buzz1638

fettle1745

fluster1808

spufflea1825

fly (a)round1833

scrimmage1833

to come mumbudgeting1872

whew1873

spry1885

1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 52 Pretend to fettle about the Room.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. vii. 262 He is getting his saddle altered; fettling about this and that.

Derivatives

ˈfettled adj. in senses of the verb.

ΚΠ

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 408 Yll fetyld, She that is most meke.

1861 Temple Bar 1 420 A pint of fettled porter.

1863 M. E. Braddon John Marchmont's Legacy I. 95 A mug of fettled beer.

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Fettled Ale, ale mulled with ginger and sugar.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fettle
释义	fettlen.¹ Brit. /ˈfɛtl/, U.S. /ˈfɛd(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈfɛtl/ Etymology: Old English fętel = Old High German fez̧z̧il (Middle High German vez̧z̧il, German fessel) chain, band, Old Norse fetill bandage, strap, < Old Germanic fatilo-z, < root fat-* to hold. Obsolete exc. Scottish and dialect. a. In Old English: a girdle, belt. ΚΠ c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxvii. §1 Mid fetlum & mid gyldenum hylt sweordum. a1000 Boeth. Metr. xxv. 19 Sweordum & fetelum. b. A bandage. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun] swathec1050 blood benda1250 blood bandc1300 bondc1384 whip1504 trusser1519 swath-band1556 swaddlea1569 winding band1582 deligature1583 ligation1598 bandage1599 fettle1599 ligament1599 selvage1599 swathe1615 swaddlings1623 anadesm1658 fasciation1658 girt1676 platysma1684 flannels1723 fillet1802 sealing1862 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 306/2 We must rowle the same [a wound] with narrowe rowles, or with Fetles, accordinge to the constitution of the disease. c. A handle in the side of a large basket, etc. Also attributive, as fettle strap. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > of specific tool crankc1000 steal1377 pipe1397 pot-hook1397 shaft1530 fork-shafta1642 bell-handle1768 hasp1770 fettle1812 panhandle1890 1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Caithness 69 Each cassie has a fettle or handle in each side. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Fettel, a cord used to a pannier. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Fettle-strap, the strap which sustains a pannier. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fettlen.² Brit. /ˈfɛtl/, U.S. /ˈfɛd(ə)l/ Etymology: < fettle v. 1. Condition, state, trim; in (to be) in (good, high, etc.) fettle. Also in plural the points, ‘ins and outs’ (of anything); but this may belong to fettle n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > good or bad condition or order point?c1225 plighta1375 waya1400 ply1443 ploy1477 abyss1548 order1569 kilter1582 trim1628 tilter1674 fettle?1748 kidney1763 fix1816 ?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) (Gloss.) Fettle, dress, case or condition. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 23 Her tongue for fear tint fettle in her cheek. 1804 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 90 We were young, and beath i' fettle. 1829 H. D. Best Personal & Lit. Mem. 365 A critic, who knows what the north-countryman calls the fettles of the business, may suspect an equivocation. 1850 H. L. Lear Tales Kirkbeck 2nd Ser. 270 I'm in terrible poor fettle with the toothache. 1857 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life (ed. 2) A Shetland pony in good fettle. 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table xii. 394 The young man John is..‘in fust-rate fettle’. 1890 W. Beatty-Kingston in Fortn. Rev. May 729 It would..be surprising were they not in fine fettle. 2. The material used for ‘fettling’ a furnace. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for lining or building up a furnace furnace-earth1612 fix1873 bulldog1881 fettle1894 1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 420/2 The molten metal is thoroughly stirred or ‘rabbled’ to make it uniform and secure the incorporation of the ‘fettle’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fettlev. Brit. /ˈfɛtl/, U.S. /ˈfɛd(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English–1500s fettel, Middle English–1600s fetle, (Middle English fettil, fetyl), Middle English–1500s fetel(e, 1800s dialect fottle, Middle English– fettle. Etymology: Possibly < Old English fętel, fettle n.¹; the primary sense would then be ‘to gird up’. 1. a. transitive. To make ready, put in order, arrange. Now only dialect to put to rights, ‘tidy up’, scour; also, to groom (a horse), attend to (cattle). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] rightlOE attire1330 ettlea1350 to set (also put) in rulea1387 redress1389 dress?a1400 fettlea1400 governc1405 yraylle1426 direct1509 settlec1530 tune1530 instruct1534 rede1545 commodate1595 square1596 concinnate1601 concinnea1620 rectify1655 fix1663 to put (also bring) into repair1673 arrange1802 pipeclay1806 to get together1810 to do up1886 to jack up1939 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > prepare or put in order tailc1330 ordain1340 disposec1375 appoint1393 fettlea1400 tifta1400 richc1400 tiffc1400 orderc1515 instruct1534 prune1586 compose1612 to make up1759 fix1783 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [verb (transitive)] > tend cattle suec1400 fettle1880 a1400–50 Alexander 626 And faste by his enfourme was fettild his place. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 656 Now alle þese fyue syþeȝ, forsoþe, were fetled on þis knyȝt. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 38 In þe tyxte þere þyse two arn on teme layde, Hit arn fettled in on forme. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 585 He þat fetly in face fettled alle eres. 1541 Schole House of Women sig. Ci^v Our fyly is fetlyd vnto the sadle. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. To fettle th' tits, to dress the horses. 1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey xi. 169 I..fettled up th' fire place a bit. 1864 T. Clarke in Kendal Mercury 30 Jan. Woif hed fottled him a noice loil poi i' thoon. 1880 Dorothy 46 I can..Fettle both horses and cows. b. technical. To line (a puddling furnace, etc.); to scour (rough castings). ΚΠ 1881 C. R. A. Wright in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 324/1 In fettling the furnace either oxide of iron bricks moulded to fit the furnace are built in, or, etc. 1884 Imp. & Mach. Rev. 1 Dec. 6716/2 A castings-cleaner, capable of holding a ton of rough castings and fettling them in an hour. c. To ‘do for’ (a person), to beat. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii, in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 385/2 Tom offered to..fettle him over the head with a brick. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) (at cited word) A mother will threaten her child ‘I'll fettle thee’. d. To mull (ale or porter); see fettled adj. †2. a. reflexive and intransitive for reflexive. To get (oneself) ready; to prepare; to address oneself to battle. Obsolete exc. dialect (see quot. 1855). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (reflexive)] yarec888 yarkc1000 graithc1230 dightc1275 to make yarec1290 arrayc1320 tirec1330 agraith1340 buska1350 readya1350 dressc1350 shapec1374 disposec1375 ordainc1380 rayc1380 makec1390 bouna1400 updressa1400 fettlec1400 address1447 ettlec1450 aready1470 to make oneself forth1488 busklea1555 poise1639 arrange1865 society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] fightc900 to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1297 to do battle1297 to give battle1297 strive13.. battle1330 to instore a battle1382 fettlec1400 pugnec1425 toilc1425 to deliver battle1433 conflict?a1475 bargain1487 mellaya1500 liverc1500 to come out1511 field1535 combat1589 to manage arms1590 sway1590 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] buskc1330 agraith1340 to make readya1382 arraya1387 providec1425 prepare1517 addressa1522 apparel1523 bouna1525 buckle1563 to make frecka1572 fettle?c1600 fix1716 to set into ——1825 to show foot1825 ready1878 to fang a pump, (loosely) a well1883 prep1900 to get (oneself) organized1926 to sharpen one's pencil1957 c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 435 On a felde he fettelez hym to bide. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xvi. 197 The Scottis..Tuk the feld, and manlykly Fetlyt wyth thare fais in fycht. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 46 He..sels his Teme and fetleth to the warre. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxi. xvi. 402 They rather trembled..than fetled themselves to consultation. ?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 306 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 242 Every ryncke to his reste full radlie him dressed, Beten fires full fast, and feteled them to sowpe Besides Barwick in a banck. 1674 J. Ray N. Country Words Fettle, to set or go about any thing. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 56 ‘We are just fettling for off.’ b. To busy oneself; to fuss. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > bustle buskle1545 bustle1548 buffle1610 buzz1638 fettle1745 fluster1808 spufflea1825 fly (a)round1833 scrimmage1833 to come mumbudgeting1872 whew1873 spry1885 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 52 Pretend to fettle about the Room. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. vii. 262 He is getting his saddle altered; fettling about this and that. Derivatives ˈfettled adj. in senses of the verb. ΚΠ a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 408 Yll fetyld, She that is most meke. 1861 Temple Bar 1 420 A pint of fettled porter. 1863 M. E. Braddon John Marchmont's Legacy I. 95 A mug of fettled beer. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Fettled Ale, ale mulled with ginger and sugar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c888n.²?1748v.a1400
随便看	bend a person to one's bow bend a person's ear bend a person's ear also bend a person's ear occasionally ears bend a rope bend a sail bend backward bend one's ear bend or direct one's steps bend or draw a bow bend or lean over backwards bend or lean over backwardss bend out of shape bend over bend over backward bend over backwards bend sinister bend the brows bend the cable bend the elbow bend the head or face bend the rules bend to one's bow bend treflé bend up

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