fettle

A state of physical condition; kilter or trim.

These strong 2-8-2s […] appeared in good fettle, especially those shedded at Lublin and several arrivals and departures were photographed in the fine evening light.

One's mental state; spirits.

Sand used to line a furnace.

A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.

The act of fettling.

To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.

He is getting his saddle altered: fettling about this and that; does not consider what danger he is in.

For some time after the train had gone Oscar stood on the track conversing with members of the fettling gang […]

To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.

Nor list he now go whistling to the car, But sells his team , and fettleth to the war

To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.

To be upset or in a bad mood.

Divint fettle yersel ower that!

To remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.