fettle, in fine
fettle, in fine in very good condition. Fettle is recorded in late Middle English as a verb in the general sense of ‘get ready, prepare’ (specifically, for battle), and comes from dialect fettle noun ‘strip of material, girdle’, ultimately from Old English and of Germanic origin.
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