Definition of Pettling

1. pettle [v] - See also: pettle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pettling

pettifogulize
pettily
pettiness
pettinesses
petting zoo
pettings
pettish
pettishly
pettishness
pettishnesses
pettitoes
pettle
pettled
pettles
pettling (current term)
petto
petty
petty(a)
petty apartheid
petty bourgeoisie
petty bourgeoisies
petty cash
petty criticism
petty juror
petty jury
petty larcenies
petty larceny
petty morel
petty officer

Literary usage of Pettling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"pettling you altogether, if you were one of ourselves. Certainly it is most probable we should. You remain, therefore, where you are, from the roost ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... that this is a clear proof of a private concert betwixt the pannel and Allan Breck, pettling the manner in which he was to be supplied with money. his ..."

3. Personal Recollections of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1893)
"... tenure. but in the yen is immediately following our pettling there these were abolished. and the jio»-i—ion of the peasant was freed from all bnr- ..."

4. Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons who Have Died in the United by Nathan Crosby (1858)
"... that, pettling up hie affairs as quickly a* possible, lie returned, married into the family, and Bottled In Kerry, where his descendante still reside. ..."

5. A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans: From the by Edward Herbert Bunbury (1879)
"... more practical and easier task of pettling the administration of Gaul, and accepted friendly overtures from the princes and chieftains of the island, ..."

6. The National Bankruptcy Register Reports: Containing All the Important (1879)
"He likewise directed his counsel to prepare the proper instrument for pettling upon his wife forty thousand dollars of seven per cent, bonds of the United ..."

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