fettle
- Noun. A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.
- Noun. One's mental state; spirits.
- Noun. Sand used to line a furnace.
- Noun. (Geordie, Cumbria) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
- Noun. (ceramics) a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces.
- Verb. (context, Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- Verb. (transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
- Verb. (transitive, Geordie) To be upset or in bad mood.
- Verb. In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
- Verb. (British, cycling) To repair or tune a bicycle.
- Verb. (transitive) (archaic) To prepare.
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