English Dictionary

fettle

/ˈfɛtəl/

verb

(especially Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair. / (intransitive) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.

I need to fettle this mess before it gets worse.

意味（1）

(especially Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.

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

意味（2）

(intransitive) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.

Nor list he now go whistling to the car,

Nor list he now go whistling to the car, But sells his team , and fettleth to the war

意味（3）

(transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.

意味（4）

(reflexive, Tyneside) To be upset or in a bad mood.

Divint fettle yersel ower that!

意味（5）

In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.

意味（6）

(transitive, archaic) To prepare.

But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next...