Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal (Scotch) form of
paddle , paddle. - To indulge; coddle; pet.
- noun A tool used in various arts for burnishing.
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Examples
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Customer service for the less than quality garbage they pettle is completely gone as well.
Holiday Commercials Tim Romano 2008
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--- Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o 'duds aff our backs, and take what penny o' siller we hae, and harle us to the Correctionhouse in Leith Wynd, and pettle us up wi 'bread and water and siclike sunkets.' '
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"He will take to the pleugh-pettle, neighbour," said the good dame;
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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'I would like to have a round wi' you, that's certain; -- but a farmer, and with a hand that never held pleugh-stilt or pettle, that will never do.
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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_Pattle_, or _pettle_, a small spades to clean the plough.
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“He will take to the pleugh-pettle, neighbour,” said the good dame; “and so will Halbert too, I trust.
The Monastery 2008
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‘I would like to have a round wi’ you, that’s certain; — but a farmer, and with a hand that never held pleugh-stilt or pettle, that will never do.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Correctionhouse in Leith Wynd, and pettle us up wi’ bread and water and siclike sunkets.”
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Correctionhouse in Leith Wynd, and pettle us up wi 'bread and water and siclike sunkets. "
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Correctionhouse in Leith Wynd, and pettle us up wi 'bread and water and siclike sunkets. "
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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