Usually means: Resolve or intend to do.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. ettle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ettle: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ettle: Wordnik
  4. ettle: Wiktionary
  5. Ettle: Dictionary.com
  6. Ettle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. ettle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Ettle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. ettle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. ettle: Free Dictionary
  11. Ettle: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. ettle: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ettle)

verb:  (transitive, now Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) To propose, intend.
verb:  (intransitive, now Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) To direct one's course, to head.
verb:  (intransitive, now Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) To direct (something) to or at someone or something; to aim at.
verb:  (intransitive, now Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) To strive, to try.
noun:  (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Intention; intent; aim.
verb:  (obsolete) To earn.

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