different between fettler vs settler

English

Etymology

fettle +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

fettler (plural fettlers)

1. A person who maintains railway lines.
2. Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
3. (by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
4. (slang, Britain, Lancashire) A friend or mate

   How's tha' doing fettler?

5. (mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.

Quotations

• 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 79, [1]

  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.

• 1939. Comrade Fettler (a Union song about Fettlers])[2]

  The summer brings its nursery, with dust and sandy blight

  But the Fettler must keep toiling, to keep the track alright.

English

Etymology

settle +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?t.l?/, /?s?t.l?.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?t.l?/, /?s?t.l?.?/
• Hyphenation: sett?ler

Noun

settler (plural settlers)

1. Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.

   the first settlers of New England
2. Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
3. (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
4. (Britain) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
5. A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
6. A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
   • 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition (page 189)

     First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.

Derived terms

• Settla

Related terms

• settlement

Translations

Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, letters, lettres, sterlet, tetrels, trestle

Norman

Etymology

From English settle +? -er.

Verb

settler

1. (Jersey) to settle (an argument, a dispute, etc.)