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1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati (advt.) Brass and iron founders; fitters of wrought iron welded pipe, for steam, gas, etc.

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Fitter or Engine Fitter—a working engineer whose duties consist in the fitting together of machine or engine parts.

1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Fitters, term applied to those persons..who paste together the portions cut out to form the boot-upper, to prepare them for sewing.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 37 Fitter, 1. one who notches the tree for felling and after it is felled marks the log lengths into which it is to be cut; 2. one who cuts limbs from felled trees and rings and slits the bark preparatory to peeling tanbark.

1948 L. Levy Music for Movies iii. 22 Films being given a preview to the conductor (or as he was sometimes ingloriously known, the ‘fitter’), with the object of making some attempt at fitting the music to the mood of the film.