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Fettle

verb

Remove mold marks or sand from (a casting).

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"Fettle" Quotes from Famous Books

... evening and ate but little, so as to be in good fettle for his spring running, and he ate alone because all the Jungle People were away singing or fighting. It was a perfect white night, as they call it. All green things seemed to have made a month's ...

— The Second Jungle Book • Rudyard Kipling

... at the Drive. "The General's there!" he announced, glancing back at her over a shoulder. "And his horse seems in fine fettle this morning, prancing, and arching his neck. And nobody's scribbled on him, which seems to please the General very much, for he's got ...

— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... was one thing Dick loved it was a good horse, and once on Dolly's back he urged the little mare along at top speed. She was in prime fettle, and flew along the hard road as if she ...

— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield

... "fitness" and condition. Whether he exercised for the sake of exercising, or because bodily movement served to stimulate his mind in the consideration of problems of moment, John Steele certainly had never been in finer physical fettle than at this particular period of his varied and eventful career. Which proved of service to him and his well-being, for one night, not long thereafter, he was called upon to defend himself from a number of footpads ...

— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham

Words linked to "Fettle" : remove, get rid of, fitness, physical fitness