fitter

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪtɚ/,

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• Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)

From fit (verb) +‎ -er.

fitter (plural fitters)

1. A person who fits or assembles something.

   a fitter of clothing, or of machinery

   • 1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, pages 262, 264:

     But in the early days of the scheme the new machines created some problems for the fitters, who found them over-complex and their faults hard to diagnose after many years' experience of small, simple steam locomotives.

   • 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 8:

     "They have gone past their sell-by date. But the fitters have done an amazing job keeping these units running for as long as they have.

2. (informal) An epileptic.
3. (UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.^[1]
4. (film, historical) A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films.
   • 2012, Stephen Neale, The Classical Hollywood Reader, page 268:

     For the fitter of film music in the silent era visual reference was the surest indicator of content.

From fit (adjective) +‎ -er.

fitter

1. comparative form of fit: more fit

   An exercise bike won't make you fitter if you never find time to use it.

   My bird's loads fitter than yours.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     All stood together on the deck, / For a charnel-dungeon fitter: / All fixed on me their stony eyes, / That in the Moon did glitter.

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fitter

1. comparative degree of fit

fitter

1. inflection of fit:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

fitter m or f

1. indefinite plural of fitte

fitter f

1. indefinite plural of fitte