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- noun Plural form of
fettle . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fettle .
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Examples
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To revert to my former example of its use -- An injured cart is fettled by the wheel-wright; the wheelwright fettles the injured cart.
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A. has two fons B. and C, and on the marriage of B.A. fettles part of his
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ... William Peere Williams 1793
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(George) forms an early attachment to Celeftina, while his mother fettles a plan for his marriage with Mifs Fitz Hayman, the daughter of her brother, Lord Caftlenorth.
The Monthly Review 1791
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I to Delos, — confults tlie Oracle, — fettles in Crete,. falls for Italy,. lands in Sicily,
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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They who vifit many countries find feme in which pleafure, profit, or fafety invite chem id fettles and thefe fettlements, when they aire once made, muft keep a perpetual correfpondcnce with the original country to which they are fubjcfi, and on which they depend for protection in daogCTy ad fupplies in neceflfity.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets 1787
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Fal is granted to a man who fettles under a Rath, for fervice and la -
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With bis mother Hagar, fettles in Arabia, on being difmifTed by Abraham* 'xvi.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1781
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* Then range the World, Difcovry/'Strait he goes O'er Seas, o'er Libya's Sands and Zemblas Snows y He fettles where kind Rays till now have fmil'd
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Suppofe an arch formed upon two fupports, and that one of them fettles, or gives way more than the other, the top or crown of the arch, though at firft truly placed, wi!
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Some of thefe iflands appear high and craggy like rocks, having lower parts or plains; and, when the warm feafons are coming on, the fun melts the fnow and ice, and caufes cafcades to fall from the craggy high parts into the lower, where the water fettles in hollows, form - ing ing icfelf into lakes and rivulets.
Essays Upon Natural History, and Other Miscellaneous Subjects, 1770
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