Definition of "fettling" [fet•tling]

• Metallurgy Fettle. (noun)

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• "I have heard the people here talk of "fettling" the hearth when they mean "clean up.""
• ""Was there ever such a man?" said Mr. Mordacks to himself, as he rode back to Flamborough against the bitter wind, after "fettling" the affairs of the poor Carroways, as well as might be for the present."
• "The fettling in the cabin and engine bay is incomparably purrr-fect."