fitting
/ˈfɪtɪŋ/ noun B2- An act of trying on an item of clothing to adjust or inspect how well it fits.
- A (generally small) component or part of a device or machine, especially one that is standardized and replaceable; specifically, a standardized part of a piping system used to connect sections of pipe together, such as a coupling.
- The process of fitting up; especially, of applying skilled methods to the installation of components to machines or other products.
Plural fittings
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As you look at their grey stone huts against the scarred hillsides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality.
A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.
Seeing a thrush sitting upon a tree, he wished to take it, and fitting his twigs to a proper length, watched intently, having his whole thoughts directed towards the sky.
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