fettle

"Right now Ginger is in a fine fettle, continuing to write songs that will be released under the guise of The Wildhearts and as solo projects in the future."

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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

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 Waugh, Edwin

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 Fitzgerald, S. J. Adair

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 Gilbert, John, Sir

So we fettled th' lad's bits o' clooas up and made him ever so daycent, and set him off to try to get on wi' th' chap at Lytham.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin

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 Sidgwick, Frank

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

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

“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 Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty