To Fettle

Your correspondent L. C. R. (p. 142.) is referred to the late Mr. Roger Wilbraham's *Cheshire Glossary*, or (as he modestly termed it) *An Attempt*, &c. This work, privately printed in 1820, is the republication, but with *very considerable additions*, of a paper in the *Archæologia*, vol. xix. The explanation of the present word is an instance of this expansion. Your correspondent and Mr. W. agree as to the meaning of this verb, viz. "to mend, to put in order any thing which is broken or defective. Being used in this sense, Mr. W. differs from Johnson and Todd, and he is inclined to derive Fe…