Definition of "mettled"

mettled

adjective
comparative more mettled, superlative most mettled
1. (archaic) Having mettle; pithy, spirited
  Quotations
  a mettled fellow
  1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, (please specify the page)
  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), page 123