He remembered old Giorgio taking his pipe out of his mouth to throw these words over his shoulder at the cafe, full of engine-drivers and fitters from the railway workshops.
Plumbers and steam-fitters show the smallest proportion of foreign labor.
I asked the fitters to see to it, and they wouldn't come.
The fitters are usually looked upon as the men par excellence of the shed.
Both the fitters and the machinemen wear cloth suits, with a thin blue jacket or "slop" and overalls, and you rarely see them stripped or with their shirt-sleeves turned up.
The duties of the fitters are very well indicated by their denominative: they prepare and fit together all the machinery parts for the locomotives and carriages as well as the steam-brake details and other apparatus of a complicated nature.
Though they may not be as highly skilled as are the fitters individually, collectively they form a much more imposing and vigorous body, and one that is far more essential to the absolute needs of the firm.
The sheds also serve as centres for supplying the other shops with their small staffs of fitters who superintend repairs to the local machinery, attend to the steam-hammers, fix new shafting, and so on.
The majority of the fitters are members of Trades Unions, and of all other classes at the works, perhaps, they take the greatest pains to protect themselves and their interests.
Fitters and cutters form the aristocracy of the profession, but one which is recruited from the humbler ranks.
Women are employed chiefly as machinists or upper closers, or as fitters in both cases, being concerned with the manufacture of the top or upper.
He was not quite sure what tracings might be, but he knew the firm had plans for new machinery in hand, from which great things were to be expected, for he had heard the fitters talking about it.
He had watched the fitters at their work and thought wistfully of the years that must go by before he would be as clever as they.
Some apprentices have not the ability to become good fitters and sewers, and are destitute of artistic taste; but women seldom change from one employment to another on discovering their incompetency.
Fitters and forewomen, in some places, gain from $4 to $7 per week.
But the International Association of Steam, Hot Water, and Power Pipe Fitters and Helpers is not affiliated, and interunion war results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fitters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
