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▪ I. fitter, n.1|ˈfɪtə(r)|
[f. fit v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who or that which fits (see the vb.). Also with adverbs, as fitter-out, fitter up.
1660Hexham, Een geriever, a Fitter, an Applier, or an Accommodatour. 1707Mortimer Husb. ix. 146 Sowing..with French Furze seed, they reckon a great Improver of their Land, and a fitter of it for corn. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 224 Nothing more can be done for a palace than the fitters-up of a modern club have done for it.
2. a. spec. in various trades (see quots.). Also in Comb., as gas-fitter, hot-water-fitter, etc.
1851C. Cist Cincinnati (Advt.), Brass and iron founders; fitters of wrought iron welded pipe, for steam, gas, etc. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Fitter or Engine Fitter—a working engineer whose duties consist in the fitting together of machine or engine parts. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Fitters, term applied to those persons..who paste together the portions cut out to form the boot-upper, to prepare them for sewing. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging 37 Fitter, 1. one who notches the tree for felling and after it is felled marks the log lengths into which it is to be cut; 2. one who cuts limbs from felled trees and rings and slits the bark preparatory to peeling tanbark. 1948L. Levy Music for Movies iii. 22 Films being given a preview to the conductor (or as he was sometimes ingloriously known, the ‘fitter’), with the object of making some attempt at fitting the music to the mood of the film.
b. One who is engaged to supervise the cutting out and making of garments, or the alteration of ready-made garments to suit customers' requirements.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Fitter..a weigher at the mint; a tailor, one who tries on and adjusts articles of dress. 1885Law Times LXXX. 8 1 A cutter and fitter of wearing apparel. 1896Daily News 10 Dec. 7/2 She will find that the fitter who receives her presides..at the table where her orders are being carried out. 1906Daily Chron. 17 July 5/2 She sent the defendants notice that unless they sent a fitter up to make the dress right on the Monday it would be of no use to her. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §405 Fitter, dressmaker's fitter, in charge of workrooms in large establishment..; fits garments requiring alterations and takes customers' measurements for length of skirt, etc. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 805/2 The women in the workrooms, the fitters, the mannequins.
▪ II. fitter, n.2 local.|ˈfɪtə(r)|
[f. fitt v. + -er1.]
One who vends and loads coals; a coal-broker.
1678in Brand Newcastle (1789) II. 669 The customers, collectors, fitters, and other..officers..in the said port. 1739Enquiry Reasons Advance Price Coals 31 The Host⁓men or Fitters at Newcastle are an incorporated Company. 1843T. Wilson Pitman's Pay, etc. 108 The ‘Runnin' Fitters’ stannin' still. Ibid. 117 Mourn, a' the fitters o' the Quay!
▪ III. † ˈfitter, v. Obs. rare.
[Perh. cognate with MHG. vetze, mod.G. fetzen rag, scrap, and ON. fit hem (see fit n.1); the vb. (perh. first used in pa. pple.: see next) is formed with frequentative suffix -er5 common in vbs. expressive of the action of breaking into small pieces.]
intr. To break into small fragments.
c1380,c1450[? implied in next]. 1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 319 When Sampson was disposed he brake the cordes and ropes wherewith he was tyed; they fittered and dissolved even as the flaxe which is burnt with the fire. |