A person employed to manufacture or assemble the structural parts of a ship.
Example sentencesExamples
The present owner's husband, a ship builder, bought the house that year and carried out an extensive and unusual refurbishment using his apprentice ship fitters.
I admitted to John that I didn't know what a ship fitter was, and asked that he explain it to me.
He raced down a couple of decks to the ship fitter's storage room and grabbed his materials.
A boilermaker and ship fitter by trade, he has had progressively responsible roles up to and including Vice President of Repair for Intermarine.
I was the lead ship fitter on the job and handled most of the lead panels in one way or the other.
The ship fitters will be working on watertight door gaskets to try and get this place a little warmer in the winter.
After lunch the word spread to the welders and ship fitters on the ship.
Definition of ship fitter in US English:
ship fitter
noun
A person employed to manufacture or assemble the structural parts of a ship.
Example sentencesExamples
He raced down a couple of decks to the ship fitter's storage room and grabbed his materials.
A boilermaker and ship fitter by trade, he has had progressively responsible roles up to and including Vice President of Repair for Intermarine.
The ship fitters will be working on watertight door gaskets to try and get this place a little warmer in the winter.
I was the lead ship fitter on the job and handled most of the lead panels in one way or the other.
The present owner's husband, a ship builder, bought the house that year and carried out an extensive and unusual refurbishment using his apprentice ship fitters.
I admitted to John that I didn't know what a ship fitter was, and asked that he explain it to me.
After lunch the word spread to the welders and ship fitters on the ship.