fetch mettle:

Obsolete British expression of the 17 ^th century, derived for male masturbation . Mettle referred to semen , to fetch mettle was to masturbate until ejaculation . Captain Francis Grose defines fetch mettle in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' the act of self pollution .' See masturbation-male for synonyms.
See Also: fetch, fetch metal, fetch mettle, mettle

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