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fettle 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈfetl/,
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fettles, plural;
  1. Trim or clean the rough edges of (a metal casting or a piece of pottery) before firing

  2. Make or repair (something)
    • - the familiar sounds of bikes being prepped and fettled
Noun
  1. Condition
    • - the aircraft remains in fine fettle
  1. a state of fitness and good health; "in fine fettle"
  2. remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)
  3. A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim; One's mental state; spirits; Sand used to line a furnace; A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst; a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces; To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair; To line the hearth of a furnace with ...
  4. (Fettling) The removal of burrs
  5. (Fettling) Cleaning of cast ware, especially the removal of the seams produced by joins in the plaster mould.
  6. (Fettling) The removal, in the unfired state of excess body left in the shaping of pottery-ware at such places as seams and edges. (W)
  7. (Fettling) process by which excess metal (flashing) is removed from castings by tumbling them in a rotating drum
  8. (fettling) the process of trimming, cleaning and otherwise preparing the cast piece for finishing. While the word 'fettle' is not in common use as a verb, it is used in a variety of crafts to describe simular processes. ...
  9. British term meaning the process of removing all runners and risers and cleaning off adhering sand from the casting. Also refers to the removal of slag from the inside of the cupola and in Britain to repair the bed of an open hearth.
  10. The removal of unwanted blemishes, seams and flash from nearly dry pots prior to glazing and firing.
  11. to remove fins mold marks and rough edges from dry or nearly dry ware.
  12. fettling: Making repairs to rail track, especially concerned with maintaining the drainage of the ballast, and the proper cant of the rail track and rails.
  13. the seam on the casting where two molds meet.
  14. (verb and noun) — term used to describe someone's current mental state (e.g. "in fine fettle") or to threaten someone (e.g. "I'll fettle you.").
  15. To finish or smooth the surface of leatherhard clay. To trim off spare clay at a seam from cast or jiggered pieces. (1, 3)
  16. The process of removing all mold marks from greenware.
  17. estado; condición; in fine fettle
  18. sb. girdle, belt, horse-girth, JD.  Cp.  Icel. fetill, OHG. fezil.