Definitions For Fettler
Noun
FETTLER (plural FETTLERs) A person who maintains railway lines. Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings. (by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things. (slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate : How's tha' doing fettler? (mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.Quotations
1938, w:xavier herbert, xavier herbert, w:capricornia (novel), capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 79, : 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]) : The summer brings its nursery, with dust and sandy blight : But the Fettler must keep toiling, to keep the track alright.Etymology
fettle + erIs Fettler a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
NO
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
11
The word Fettler is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends