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fitter

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fit \Fit\, a. [Compar. Fitter ; superl. Fittest .] [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. f?tjan to adorn. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, agent noun from fit (v.).

Usage examples of fitter.

There were no fitter men than the Dales shepherds, living in the open in all weathers, throwing a sack over their shoulders in snow and rain.

After a few minutes a fitter came over to where I sat trembling in my seat.

His father was a Registered Pipe Fitter and had found his occupation on Earth.

Registered Pipe Fitter and your mother is named Amy and is a Registered Home Technician.

Were not the hand of the leech fitter than that of the soldier to cure wounds, though less able to inflict them?

The fitter remarked to her it was an unusual colour but exactly the colour for her.

But it was a laggard and ice-thin prosperity, and Sarah was worried about her daughter: her son-in-law was a licensed pipe fitter, laid off indefinitely by a Tampa-area natural gas distributor.

That was when Fuchs had worked as a diesel fitter for a boat company on the Elbe.

To be nearer the aeroplanes he got a job as an aero-engine fitter at the flying club that shared the field with the RAF reservists.

Engine-mechanics, riggers, electricians, instrument fitters and radio mechanics swarmed all over the great four-motor aircraft.

Together with, two fitters and Battersby he was full-length in a pool of oil waiting for the bang.

How much fitter would it be, granting that death is the end all, to revise our interpretation, look at the subject from the stand point of universal order, not from this opinionative narrowness, and see if it be not susceptible of a benignant meaning, worthy of grateful acceptance by the humble mind of piety and the dispassionate spirit of science!

James made the Jesuit Petre a privy councillor, giving him his own apartment at Whitehall, and represented that he would be fitter for such a position if he was made a bishop or a cardinal, Innocent refused.

I have seen last night, whilk are things fitter for them to judge of than a borrel man like me.

By calling he was a fitter, and he had come to submit a difficulty which had just arisen in the piecing together of a reaping machine.