See Also: mettle(medicine)
mettle(dictionary)
mettle(dictionary)

pandore (iou) and mettle (oh)


pandore (iou)



pandore noun1. Scot. Now rare or obsolete. Also pandoor. E18.
[Origin unkn.]
A kind of large oyster.

mettle (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: metal]
courage and determination to do something even when it is very difficult
test/show/prove your mettle
::a crisis which will test the prime minister's mettle
on your mettle
BrE if you are on your mettle, you are ready to try as hard as possible because your abilities are being tested
::We'll have to be on our mettle from the start.
keep/put sb on their mettle
::This was just his way of keeping me on my mettle.