Fitter
['fɪtə] or ['fɪtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who fits a garment to a particular person.
(adj.) improved in health or physical condition .
Edited by Ian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who fits or makes to fit;
(n.) One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.
(n.) One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
(n.) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
(n.) A little piece; a flitter; a flinder.
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Examples
- You are, in every way, Mr. Gilmore, much fitter to advise and to act in the matter than I am. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I can't say that I woke this morning; the fitter expression would be, that I recovered my senses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The fitter messenger for my purpose. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Thou art proud, Rowena, and thou art the fitter to be my wife. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- My dear Franklin, you, in your way, must imitate my patience, and wait, as I do, for a fitter time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But thou, sweet child, amiable and beloved boy, either thy spirit has sought a fitter dwelling, or, shrined in my heart, thou livest while it lives. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Murderer Franklin Blake would be a fitter name for him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- No; that's common; a very outlandish distinction, fitter for a lady in a balloon. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They appear in a stronger light; are more agreeable; and consequently fitter subjects of pride and vanity, than any other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But a fitter fate occurred to me for this false deity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Fools are we all indeed that serve them, and fitter subjects for their scorn and laughter, than if we were born with but half our wits. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- No doubt it is handsomer than mine, and fitter for a ballroom. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I've no wish to hear what he's got to say, I'm sure; only, if you could see his shoes, I'm sure you'd say the kitchen was the fitter place. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Yet why should I not remain thus, I thought; the world is dead, and this squalid attire is a fitter mourning garb than the foppery of a black suit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Michel