Meanings
adjectivemettled (comparative more mettled, superlative most mettled)
comparative more mettled · superlative most mettled
- archaicHaving mettle; pithy, spirited
She looked, and saw one of the most graceful cavaliers that ever reined in a mettled horse.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 1231 more example
The mettled ſteeds, when from their noſtrils flows / The ſcorching fire, that in their entrails glows.
a. 1720 (date written), Joseph Addison, The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC, page 154
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