Definition of Shipfitters

1. shipfitter [n] - See also: shipfitter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipfitters

shipboard duty
shipboard soldier
shipboard system
shipboards
shipborne
shipbound
shipbroker
shipbrokers
shipbroking
shipbuilder
shipbuilders
shipbuilding
shipbuilding industry
shipbuildings
shipfitter
shipfitters (current term)
shipful
shipfuls
shipfyrd
shiphandler
shiphandlers
shipholder
shipholders
shiplap
shiplaps
shipless
shiplet
shiplets
shiplike
shipling

Literary usage of Shipfitters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Ship Production by Andrew Williams Carmichael (1919)
"This work is done by layers-out who are usually possessed of the same qualifications as shipfitters. Their work, however, is confined to the laying-out shop ..."

2. Practical Ship Production by Andrew Williams Carmichael (1919)
"This work is done by layers-out who are usually possessed of the same qualifications as shipfitters. Their work, however, is confined to the laying-out shop ..."

3. Shipbuilding for Beginners by Andrew Williams Carmichael (1918)
"This would cause serious delays, the extra expense of making new parts, or the danger of weakening the hull of the ship. shipfitters. ..."

4. Audel's Ship Fitters' Guide: A Practical Treatise on Steel Ship Building and by Ralph Newstead (1919)
"The donkey crane transfers both shipfitters' and ... and shipfitters lay off material. It is then carried by crane to punches, shears and planers and then ..."

5. A guide to the study of occupations: a selected critical bibliography of the by Frederick James Allen (1921)
"... shipfitters' Guide. UNDERWRITER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING Co. Live Articles on Accident Prevention, No. 6, pp. 79-81, medical supervision in ship building ..."

6. A Handbook of Practical Shipbuilding by James Douglas MacBride (1921)
"The shipfitters are on such work from the time it is started and are in charge of the assembling of the ship itself. The supervision and carrying out of ..."

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