fettle

IPA: fˈɛtʌɫ

(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.
(transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
(reflexive, Tyneside) To be upset or in a bad mood.
In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
(transitive, archaic) To prepare.

Examples of "fettle" in Sentences

Those fifty-one days of fine sailing and intense sobriety had put me in splendid fettle.
I foolishly left the information brochures for SF Canada on my desk at home and had to fettle up something rough-and-ready on my netbook.
Still in fine fettle at the age of 87, Ruth Young, a retired Oakland school nurse, jumped at the chance, she said, to “spit for the cause.”
We have had a very pleasing vacance, and now return to you in fine fettle, ready to tear apart your uninspired literary efforts with renewed vigor!
Please accept this simple three minute virtual coaching session as a substitute for my absence and distraction and I promise to be back in fine 'fettle' next week.
Without another word she left the room, clattering her heavy shoes at the door; and Mordacks foresaw a sad encounter on the morrow, without a good breakfast to "fettle" him for it.
The USA line-up looks better in terms of the world rankings it contains five of the world's top 20, compared to Europe's one, Pettersen but recent form suggests the home team may be in better fettle.
The bus driver was initially reported in serious condition; on KTTV/11 FOX News that night, his fiancÃ© reported she had seem him and he was in good condition, and showed photos of him she had just taken and he appeared in reasonably fine fettle.