(a.) To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.
(v. i.) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
(n.) The act of fettling.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a surprise and delight to find something locally grown and in fine fettle.
(2) A separate Haldane “ecstasy index”, based on economic growth, unemployment and inflation, suggests Britain is in “fine fettle.” But wage growth paints a different picture, with earnings remaining stubbornly weak.
(3) But everyone in the team has been in good humour and fettle.
(4) Apparently, Bruce McAvaney tells me, his fastest serve at the tournament was 219, so he's in fine fettle.
(5) My mother, a very good cook indeed, had not, to my knowledge, a book of hers anywhere in the house when I was fettling away at the Aga in my early to late teens.
(6) This method was used to compare the duration of employment in the industry, in "dust exposed" jobs, in "fume exposed" jobs, in foundry area jobs, in fettling shop jobs, and in foundry area or fettling shop jobs, of those dying from cancers of the stomach and lung with those of all matching survivors.
(7) Well it's not showing on your figure, Chris, you look to be in fine fettle.
(8) oh god May 14, 2014 Boy George (@BoyGeorge) I'm loving 'World Peace Is None Of Your Business @itsmorrissey in fine fettle!
(9) Russia's film industry has looked in fine fettle until recently, with homegrown films such as Day Watch and Night Watch competing with US products at the domestic box office.
(10) The adduct levels were low in men in pattern making, melting, and fettling.
(11) "We are sorry to see Matthew go," said Andrew Neil, chairman and editor in chief of the Spectator, "but he is an exceptional journalist with many demands on his talents and he leaves behind a magazine in fine fettle.
(12) Manchester United had seven recognised defenders starting the game, while Arsenal were in fine fettle, Robin van Persie fit, Andrey Arshavin performing well, and Laurent Koscielny forming a decent partnership with Johan Djourou at the back.
(13) Thanks to GBBO , cake-fettling has crept into the national consciousness – yet I somehow don't find myself being offered muffins at the pub.
(14) Public engagement on the Europe issue is in fine fettle.
(15) And, despite predictions that the event would suffer because of competition from the London Olympics, and despite complaints that it has become over-commersialised , the Fringe appears (at least at the moment) to be in as fine fettle as ever.
(16) Day One: West Ruislip to Great Missenden, nine miles Ron Ryall, wearing an oil-smudged blue boilersuit, was fettling a cream Morris Minor in his low wooden workshop on a lane where the suburbs of West Ruislip give way to scrapyards, dog kennels and horse paddocks.
(17) While question marks hang over the durability of The X Factor franchise, I'm a Celebrity is in fine fettle with the latest series the second-most watched in the show's history.
(18) Despite the ferocious tone of the battle for his party, he insisted he was “in absolutely fine fettle” and even joked about Cameron’s tribute to his cat at the outgoing prime minister’s final appearance in the Commons last week.
(19) Scotland's leader was in rude fettle on Saturday, tilting at the Tories and Labour's quislings in turn, and announcing a couple of crowd-pleasers – the establishment of a fair work commission to guarantee a minimum wage that rises with inflation and reiterating the renationalisation of Royal Mail under his government in an independent Scotland.
(20) Atos and G4S questioned by MPs: Politics live blog 10.23am GMT Jeremy Cook , chief economist of World First , the currency exchange firm, reckons the UK ended the year in 'fine fettle', even though the service sector provided much of the growth, again.... “The 0.3% fall in construction output will be a concern, but I would hope that an increased level of investment throughout 2014 should reverse this."
Kilter
Definition:
(n.) See Kelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12.43pm BST 23rd over: Sri Lanka 58-2 (Jayawardene 1, Sangakkara 7) Plunkett sends down another six balls of lively pace at Mahela Jayawardene, but this time his radar is a little out-of-kilter.
(2) If the result on 6 May is shockingly out of kilter with public wishes, then a second general election should be held as soon as a new voting system is in place.
(3) [I was] over-thinking food choices,” she says, “and trying to get more protein, more energy density, the correct macro-nutrient ratios… after which I got so exhausted I just chose nothing because it was easier than feeling guilty about the ‘wrong’ choice.” She continues: “The current obsession with health, image and fitness is way out of kilter [with] self-care.” It raises the question: in our seemingly flaxseed and clean eating-obsessed Instagram culture, just how many women are hiding an eating disorder behind a healthy lifestyle obsession?
(4) The executive can't be allowed to go without any checks and balances, that's perfectly proper, but the check and balance we have got at the moment seems to have got out of kilter."
(5) Bristol, though, has a reputation for slightly off-kilter stuff.
(6) But a combination of factors has sent the balance out of kilter.
(7) A flat and compulsory licence fee could hardly be more out of kilter with the culture of a free-for-all and individualistic web.
(8) However, even though that was out of kilter with some – the Guardian marginally – the element of doubt might not be sufficient to fuel a rematch.
(9) But also a Spike Jonze love story, meaning it's set in a very near, slightly off-kilter future, in a squeaky-clean but still recognisable Los Angeles (complete with an unlikely fully functional public-transit system), which is augmented with shots filmed in other Pacific-rim capitals such as Shanghai and Tokyo.
(10) There is mounting anger at Britain's political and economic elite following the parliamentary expenses scandal, alongside bankers' bonuses out of kilter with any reasonable notion of justified reward.
(11) He would see his best way of managing the politics of this issue, given his own position is very much out of kilter with the views of the public, is to wait until the “no” position is strengthened, then allow the debate and vote to proceed on the basis that it will fail, this time at least.
(12) But Salmond says if he were first minister of Wales, where unemployment is out of kilter with unemployment in the rest of the UK, he might be worried about a currency union.
(13) It has also launched an attack on wages for those at the bottom of the scale, with the national minimum wage out of kilter with living costs, proposals to allow regional variations in the minimum wage that would cut it further, and the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board , which set living standards for many rural workers in the lowest paid jobs.
(14) He wrote in an introduction to the Radio Centre document: "The balanced radio industry gets out of kilter when public and commercial services sound too similar, or when BBC stations are seen to prioritise popularity over quality, and delivery of public purposes."
(15) The centre-forward was a distant second-best in the physical battle with Dunne while his shooting was off-kilter.
(16) Last week CBI boss Richard Lambert warned that boardroom pay was getting so out of kilter with average wages that bosses risked being regarded as "aliens".
(17) Good MPs say they need some casework, to see at first hand where government departments are failing, but the balance now is out of kilter.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
(19) He added: "President Zuma should pay back every rand of public money improperly spent on making him live like the monarchy he fancies himself to be, which is out of kilter with the behaviour expected to the head of government in a constitutional democracy accountable to the public."
(20) He added that "something is dangerously out of kilter" when MPs such as Adam Price on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee confess they have been "held back" from probing into News Corporation's affairs because of "fear of what that company might do to them" – or when former employees are "too frightened to speak publicly about what they know" .