| 释义 |
▪ I. fettle, n.1 Obs. exc. Sc. and dial.|ˈfɛt(ə)l|
[OE. fętel = OHG. fez̧z̧il (MHG. vez̧z̧il, Ger. fessel) chain, band, ON. fetill bandage, strap:—OTeut. *fatilo-z, f. root fat- to hold.]
a. In OE. A girdle, belt.
b. A bandage.
c. A handle in the side of a large basket, etc. Also attrib., as fettle strap.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxvii. §1 Mid fetlum & mid ᵹyldenum hylt sweordum. a1000Boeth. Metr. xxv. 19 Sweordum & fetelum. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 306/2 We must rowle the same [a wound] with narrowe rowles, or with Fetles, accordinge to the constitution of the disease. 1812J. Henderson Agric. Surv. Caithn. 69 Each cassie has a fettle or handle in each side. 1847–78Halliwell, Fettel, a cord used to a pannier. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Fettle-strap, the strap which sustains a pannier.
▪ II. fettle, n.2|ˈfɛt(ə)l|
[f. next vb.]
1. Condition, state, trim; in phr. (to be) in (good, high, etc.) fettle. Also in pl. the points, ‘ins and outs’ (of anything); but this may belong to fettle n.1
c1750J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) Lanc. Dialect. Gloss., Fettle, dress, case, condition. 1768Ross Helenore 23 Her tongue for fear tint fettle in her cheek. 1804R. Anderson Cumbrld. Ball. 90 We were young, and beath i' fettle. 1829J. R. Best Pers. & Lit. Mem. 365 A critic, who knows what the north-countryman calls the fettles of the business, may suspect an equivocation. 1850Tales Kirkb. Ser. ii. 270 I'm in terrible poor fettle with the toothache. 1857E. Waugh Lanc. Life, A Shetland pony in good fettle. 1859O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. xii. (1891) 313 The young man John is..‘in fustrate fettle’. 1890W. Beatty-Kingston in Fortn. Rev. May 729 It would..be surprising were they not in fine fettle.
2. The material used for ‘fettling’ a furnace.
1894Harper's Mag. Feb. 420/2 The molten metal is thoroughly stirred or ‘rabbled’ to make it uniform and secure the incorporation of the ‘fettle’.
▪ III. fettle, v.|ˈfɛt(ə)l|
Forms: 4–6 fettel, 4–7 fetle, (5 fettil, fetyl), 5–6 fetel(e, 9 dial. fottle, 4– fettle.
[Possibly f. OE. fętel, fettle n.1; the primary sense would then be ‘to gird up’.]
1. trans. To make ready, put in order, arrange. Now only dial. to put to rights, ‘tidy up’, scour; also, to groom (a horse), attend to (cattle).
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 585 He þat fetly in face fettled alle eres. Ibid. C. 38 In þe tyxte þere þyse two arn on teme layde, Hit arn fettled in on forme. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 656 Now alle þese fyue syþez, forsoþe, were fetled on þis knyȝt. a1400–50Alexander 626 And faste by his enfourme was fettild his place. 1561Schole-house of Women 571 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 127 Our fily is fetled unto the saddle. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., To fettle th' tits, to dress the horses. 1849A. Brontë Agnes Grey (1858) 360, I..fettled up th' fireplace a bit. 1864T. Clarke in Kendal Mercury 30 Jan., Woif hed fottled him a noice loil poi i' thoon. 1880Dorothy 46, I can..Fettle both horses and cows.
b. techn. To line (a puddling furnace, etc.); to scour (rough castings).
1881C. R. A. Wright in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9) XIII. 324/1 In fettling the furnace either oxide of iron bricks moulded to fit the furnace are built in, or, etc. 1884Imp. & Mach. Rev. 1 Dec. 6716/2 A castings-cleaner, capable of holding a ton of rough castings and fettling them in an hour.
c. To ‘do for’ (a person), to beat.
1863Kingsley Water-bab. 322 Tom offered to..fettle him over the head with a brick. 1884Cheshire Gloss. s.v., A mother will threaten her child ‘I'll fettle thee’.
d. To mull (ale or porter); see fettled below.
†2. refl. and intr. for refl. To get (oneself) ready; to prepare; to address oneself to battle. Obs. exc. dial. (see quot. 1855).
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 435 On a felde he fettelez hym to bide. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xvi. 197 The Scottis..Tuk the feld, and manlykly Fetlyt wyth thare fais in fycht. 1515Scot. Field 304 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 227 He fettlen them to sowpe..on a banke. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iv. vi. 43 He..sels his teeme and fetleth to the warre. 1600Holland Livy xxi. xvi. (1609) 402 They rather trembled..than fetled themselves to consultation. 1674Ray N.C. Words, Fettle, to set or go about any thing. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., ‘We are just fettling for off.’
b. To busy oneself; to fuss.
1745Swift Direct. Servants iii, Pretend to fettle about the Room. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) II. vii. vii. 325 He is getting his saddle altered: fettling about this and that.
Hence ˈfettled ppl. a., in senses of the vb.
c1460Towneley Myst. 309 Ylle fetyld. 1861Temple Bar Mag. I. 420 A pint of fettled porter. 1863M. E. Braddon J. Marchmont I. 95 A mug of fettled beer. 1884Cheshire Gloss., Fettled Ale, ale mulled with ginger and sugar. |