fettle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Proper or sound condition.
• noun Mental or emotional state; spirits.
• noun Metallurgy Loose sand or ore used to line the hearth of a reverberatory furnace in preparation for pouring molten metal.
• transitive verb To line the hearth of (a reverberatory furnace) with loose sand or ore in preparation for pouring molten metal.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Neat; tight; handy.
• noun The state of being prepared, or in good repair or condition: as, he is in splendid fettle to-day.
• noun A handle in the side of a large basket.
• To bind; tie up.
• To arrange; prepare; put in order; repair; mend.
• To beat; thrash.
• Toline(the hearth of a puddling-furnace). See fettling.
• Fettled ale or porter, ale or porter sweetened with sugar and seasoned with a little ginger and nutmeg.
• To potter; set about in a fussy, pottering way; do trifling business.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb Prov. Eng. To repair; to prepare; to put in order.
• transitive verb (Metal.) To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.
• intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
• noun Prov. Eng. The act of fettling.
• noun in good spirits.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• 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 A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
• noun ceramics a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces.
• noun UK, dialect The act of fettling.
• verb 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 UK, cycling, slang To repair or tune a bicycle.
• verb transitive (archaic) To prepare.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a state of fitness and good health
• verb remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)