fettle
noun
state; condition.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Jaguar took me to a hangar in Monterey to meet the E-Type Zero, painted a swimming metallic bronze and fettled to a straightness that is itself wildly anachronistic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2018
Much modified and fettled by the Chinese, the ship is based on the Soviet Kuznetsov-class design.
From Economist ● Jan. 19, 2017
He had "fettled" one of them, and, by his Maker's help, he hoped fairly to drive them off the field.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
My lord Cid and the others have fettled them to ride, With armor and with horses and caparisons of pride.
From The Lay of the Cid by Leonard Bacon
Then John he took Guy's bow in his hand, His boltes and arrowes eche one: When the sheriffe saw Little John bend his bow, He fettled him to be gone.
From The Book of Old English Ballads by Hamilton Wright Mabie
