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fettlers

fettlers is the plural of fettler.

Meaning of fettler

Noun

fettler (plural fettlers)

  1. A person who maintains railway lines.
    • Sometimes the engine stopped for water, or to drop stores at fettlers' camps, or to accumulate the steam to take it up a heavy grade.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 79
  2. Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
  3. (broadly) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
  4. (UK, slang, Lancashire) A friend or mate.
    • How's tha' doing fettler?
  5. (historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.

Questions about fettlers

What is fettlers the plural of?
Fettlers is the plural of fettler.

Words near fettlers in the dictionary

  1. Fettigs
  2. fetting
  3. fettle
  4. fettled
  5. fettler
  6. fettlers
  7. fettles
  8. fettling
  9. fettlings
  10. fettucce
  11. fettuccelle

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