 . to work hard, to struggle with difficulties. In hard times we must fend to live. Lan. Fend is also used in the following sense. When a person is not easily convinced, it is said, You must fend and prove with him. It is probably, in both senses, an abbreviation...  An Attempt at a Glossary of Cheshire Words - Page 38by Roger Wilbraham - 1826 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Trotter Brockett - Dialect literature, English - 1825 - 296 pages
...Sliaver. FETTLE, v. to put in order, to repair or mend any thing that is broken or defective. Dr. John. explains this word " to do trifling business, to ply...hands without labour," and calls it a cant word from feel. Mr. Todd corrects this mistake, and quoting Grose's definition which is different from that here... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 pages
...Sltaver. FETTLE, v. to put in order, to repair or mend any thing that is broken or defective. Dr. John. -explains this word " to do trifling business, to...hands without labour," and calls it a cant word from feel. Mr. Todd corrects this mistake, and quoting Grose's definition which is different from that here... | |
 | Roger Wilbraham (of Cheshire.) - 1826 - 130 pages
...does to another : That child favours his father. To favour, though admitted in this sense into many of our dictionaries, and though a good authority for...Todd says this is a mistake, and that it probably conies from the Suio-Gothic Fykt, studium. The sense in which it is used in Cheshire and Lancashire... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...surety or pledge. FETTLE, ». to put in order, to repair or mend any thing that is broken or defective. Dr. Johnson explains this word, " to do trifling business,...the hands without labour," and calls it a cant word horn. feel. Mr. Todd corrects this mistake; and, quoting Grose',8 definition, which is different from... | |
 | Roger Wilbraham - English language - 1836 - 132 pages
...cleanse a ditch or pond. Fowings, emundatio, in PPC FEABEKRY, or FEEBEKRY, s. a gooseberry. FEND, ». to work hard, to struggle with difficulties. In hard...that it probably comes from the Suio-Gothic Fykt, stadium. The sense in which it is used in Cheshire and Lancashire is, however, different from that... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1846 - 298 pages
...surety or pledge. FETTLE, v. to put in order, to repair or mend anything that is broken or defective. Dr. Johnson explains this word, " to do trifling business,...hands without labour," and calls it a cant word from feel, Mr. Todd corrects this mistake ; and, quoting Grose's definition, which is different from that... | |
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