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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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... in tones of the greatest contempt. "I would not be as lazy as you are, Oaklands, for any money. You are fitter to lounge about in some old woman's drawing-room, than to handle an oar." "Well, I don't know," answered Oaklands, quietly, "but I think I can pull as ...

— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... Liverpool and Manchester, was very strongly opposed, especially by the landowners. Numerous pamphlets were published, calling on the public to "beware of the bubbles," and holding up the promoters of railways to ridicule. They were compared to St. John Long and similar quacks, and pronounced fitter for Bedlam than to be left at large. The canal proprietors, landowners, and road trustees, made common cause against them. The failure of railways was confidently predicted—indeed, it was elaborately ...

— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles

... had been educated in the ignorant conventional way still in high repute among the vulgar and among those whose chief delight is to make the vulgar gape in awe. He therefore had no science, that is, no knowledge—outside his profession—but only what is called learning, though tommyrot would be a fitter name for it. He had only the most meager acquaintance with that great fundamental of a sound and sane education, embryology. He knew nothing of what science had already done to destroy all the still current notions about the mystery of life and birth. He still laughed, as at a clever bit of legerdemain, ...

— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips

... appears. A lunatic asylum would be the fitter place for you, if you must escape state prison. Are we to stand here and bandy words all night? Show me ...

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... her new life was a series of scandals. David would have killed her, but Rudolph, whose physician he had worthily become, induced him to prefer her life-prisonment in Germany. Out of her dungeon she was brought by Rudolph, who knew no fitter implement with which to chastise ...

— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue

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