Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A passion; a quarrel.
- To injure by frequent treading.
- To kick as cross children do; make a noise with the feet.
- To be in a passion.
- noun A fragment; a flinder: a rag; a flitter.
- noun One who fits, in any sense of that word; one who or that which adapts one thing to another, or makes it suitable for the purpose intended.
- noun In mech., one who puts the parts of a machine together, as distinguished from a pattern-maker, founder, turner, finisher, etc.
- noun One who supplies and fixes fittings or fixtures of any kind; one who “fits up” things: as, a gas-fitter.
- noun One who supplies whatever is fit or necessary for the proper accomplishment of any object or undertaking; one who equips with whatever is necessary: as, a fitter-out.
- noun In some parts of Great Britain, one who vends and loads coal, fitting ships with cargoes: particularly, a coal-broker who sells the coal produced by a particular mine or by particular mines. Imp. Dict. Also called
coal-fitter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A little piece; a flitter; a flinder.
- noun One who fits or makes to fit
- noun One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.
- noun One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
- noun engraving A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
comparative form offit - noun a person who
fits orassembles something - noun informal an
epileptic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who fits a garment to a particular person
- adjective improved in health or physical condition
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Examples
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That's the problem with Mr. Irrelevant, He thinks volunteering as the Church little league uniform fitter is okay.
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He smiled, or rather grinned, his fangs making the latter term fitter for the mirthless grimace he made.
The Frozen Pirate 1877
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Never was a word fitter for a quack's mouth than "humanity"
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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Never was a word fitter for a quack's mouth than "humanity"
Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Never was a word fitter for a quack's mouth than "humanity."
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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Never was a word fitter for a quack's mouth than "humanity"
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Never was a word fitter for a quack's mouth than "humanity"
Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Never was a word fitter for a quack's mouth than "humanity"
Images from the Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Never was a word fitter for a quack's mouth than "humanity"
Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Never was a word fitter for a quack's mouth than "humanity."
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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For use as a verb see fittering.
December 10, 2008