fettler
nounEtymology From fettle + -er.
1
A person who maintains railway lines.
- 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.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 79:
- 1939, Comrade Fettler (a Union song about Fettlers)http://unionsong.com/u266.html The summer brings its nursery, with dust and sandy blight But the Fettler must keep toiling, to keep the track alright.
2
Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
3
Broadly Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
5
Business, Mining Historical An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.