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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

... that he comforts himself with the supposition, and allows the trembling hope to pass, at times, across his troubled spirit, that in the bitterness of those last hours some touch of the divine mercy may have moved her soul and made her fitter for his memory ...

— The Forsaken Inn - A Novel • Anna Katharine Green

... of that infallibility has been given in words fitter than mine. Viewing the nature of things on the whole, and then taking it for granted that God has made a revelation, and intended it to be set up and maintained alongside of and within a civilization anxious to get rid of it, what more reasonable to ...

— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 • Various

... seeds which wee knew not. Without was sundry bundles of Flags and Sedge, Bull-rushes and other stuffe to make matts. There was thrust into a hollow tree two or three pieces of venison, but we thought it fitter for the Dogs than for us. Some of the best things we took away with us, and left their houses standing still as they were. So it growing towards night, and the tyde almost spent we hastened with our things down to the shallop, and got aboard that night, intending to have brought ...

— King Philip - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

... place, may have caused such injuries; but why did they remain apparent long after discolorations of such a nature should have disappeared? Perhaps imagination may have had its effect, and made the impressions indelible. But if there is any truth in old-world stories, few places fitter for such horrors can be found than was that drear waste of sand, destitute of all signs of man's proximity, bounded on one side by a blackened forest, on the other by the sailless sea, and containing only the ...

— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... "I am fitter to meet death than thou art," answered the Disinherited Knight; for by this name the stranger had recorded himself in the ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester

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