ˈfitters, n. pl. Obs. exc. dial.
See also flitters.
[f. fitter v.]
Fragments, pieces, atoms. In various obvious phrases, as to tear to fitters, to break in(to fitters, etc. to be in fitters: fig. to be broken up into small parties.
| 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 374/2 Whiche the deuil hath by y⊇ blast of his mouth..frushed al to fitters. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. 292 Which Image..was with Fire from Heaven broken into fitters. 1639 Fuller Holy War iv. xxxii. 225 They were in fitters about prosecuting their titles to this city. 1715 tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. i. 273 That Sarsaparilla is to be chosen which is..hard to be broken but when it falls into Fitters. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Fitters, very small pieces, fragments. 1886 in S.W. Linc. Gloss. |