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Fettling   Listen
noun
Fettling  n.  
1.
(Metal.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. (Eng.) Note: (It is commonly called fix in the United States.)
2.
(Pottery) The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.





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"Fettling" Quotes from Famous Books



... each getten their own troubles. If work's sure and steady theer, labour's paid at starvation prices; while here we'n rucks o' money coming in one quarter, and ne'er a farthing th' next. For sure, th' world is in a confusion that passes me or any other man to understand; it needs fettling, and who's to fettle it, if it's as yon folks say, and there's nought but ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


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