a refractory material used to line the hearth of puddling furnaces
Also called: fettle
fettling in American English
(ˈfɛtlɪŋ)
noun
a loose material, as silica, used to fettle a puddling furnace
Word origin
see fettle
fettling in American English
(ˈfetlɪŋ)
noun
Metallurgy
the material with which the hearth of a puddling furnace is lined, usually a dolomite or refractory mixture
Word origin
[1860–65; fettle + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: calibrate, institutionalism, jumping jack, monism, prep-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”