fitter

• Rhymes: -ɪtə(r)

fit +‎ -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.

fitter (plural fitters)

1. A person who fits or assembles something.

   a fitter of clothing, or of machinery

2. (informal) An epileptic.
3. (Britain, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)

• gasfitter
• upfitter

• titfer

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fitter

1. comparative degree of fit

fitter

1. Indefinite plural of fitte