sb. 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 ye blast of his mouth throwen downe so depe and frushed al to fitters.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. 292. In the year after Christ, 363, that Monster Julian Apostata, caused that worthy Monument to be cast down and defaced, setting up the like of his own in the same place; which Image of his 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. trans. Pancirollus’ Rerum Mem., II. i. 273. That Sarsaparilla is to be chosen as the best, which is which, thick and clammy, hard to be broken but when it falls into Fitters.
1869. Peacock, Lonsdale Gloss., Fitters, very small pieces, fragments.
1886. In S. W. Linc. Gloss.
