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noun

Fitter n.

One who fits or makes to fit; esp.:

(a)

One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.

(b)

One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.

A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper. (Eng.)

Fitter n. A little piece; a flitter; a flinder. (Obs.) "Where's the Frenchman? Alas, he's all fitters."

adjective

Fit adj. (compar. fitter; superl. fittest)

Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualities, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy. "That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in." "Fit audience find, though few."

Prepared; ready. (Obs.) "So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel."

Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper. "Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked?"

Synonyms: Suitable; proper; appropriate; meet; becoming; expedient; congruous; correspondent; apposite; apt; adapted; prepared; qualified; competent; adequate.

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"Fitter" Quotes from Famous Books

... Speaker, Her Majesty's pleasure is, that if you perceive any idle heads which will meddle with reforming the church and transforming the commonwealth, and do exhibit bills to such purpose, you receive them not until they be viewed and considered by those who it is fitter should consider of such things, and can better judge of them." The times were sweetly Arcadian. Elizabeth should be painted a shepherdess, and her faithful Parliament a meek and timid ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... woman to the wash-tub." "Did Sherman say that?" said Dabney; "he shall not send my daughters to the wash-tub!" and the old hero turned laundry-man for the family as long as the need lasted. But the educated class soon found fitter work than as laundry-men or car conductors. The more exacting places called for occupants. There was a great enlistment in the ranks of teachers. Lee took the presidency of Washington university and gave to ...

— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam

... Cromwell, the then Protector's, authority was laid aside, and the old Parliament restored; the Council of State sat as formerly. The first act they put the General upon was, to take down the city gates and portcullisses, an act which, the General said, was fitter for a Janizary to do than for a General; yet he effected the commands received, and then lodged in the city with his army. The citizens took this pulling down of their gates so heinously, that one night the ruder sort of them procured all the rumps of beef, and other baggage, and publickly ...

— William Lilly's History of His Life and Times - From the Year 1602 to 1681 • William Lilly

... of the manhood of the country is already in our hands, and the fifth remaining diminishes week by week. Our mobility and efficiency increase. There is not the slightest ground for Mr. Methuen's lament about the condition of the Army. It is far fitter than when it began. It is mathematically certain that a very few months must see the last commando hunted down. Meanwhile civil life is gaining strength once more. Already the Orange River Colony pays its own way, and ...

— The War in South Africa - Its Cause and Conduct • Arthur Conan Doyle

... passion, Lucy:—I'll provide a fitter husband for her. Come, here's earnest of my good intentions for thee too; let this mollify. [Gives her money.] Look you, Heartwell is my friend; and though he be blind, I must not see him fall into the snare, and ...

— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve

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