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fit v In phr fit out. OED fit v1 11 obs when object is
a person (1591-), DAE 1 naut (1704-) for sense 1.
1 To
equip a vessel or man with gear (for fishing, sealing); to furnish with supplies or
provisions.
[1667] 1963 YONGE111 By this time the ship Mr Martyn
owned was returned and he fitting her out for Newfoundland. [1711] THOMPSON 2 And now
instead of Fifty, they [in Barnstaple and Bideford] do not fit out of late above Six or
Eight small Ships, and find it very difficult to Man these few. [1775] 1792 CARTWRIGHT
ii, 120 I was fitting out the crews for the winter. 1898 Christmas Bells 14
Skipper Tom ... and three other hardy fishers were 'fit-out.' as usual, by Mr Hardfist,
to prosecute the codfishery. T 43-64 Your supplier in the Spring would fit out the owner,
an' he'd fit also any men that was goin' with him. T 31/2-64 He fitted every man out for
the winter; 'give un all they wants' he said, 'to go wi' me again next summer.' 1967
FIRESTONE 47 At the present time even those crews that have sufficient cash to pay for
their own fishing supplies at the beginning of the season continue to be fitted out by a
merchant because it provides a convenient accounting system... Few families are now
fitted out with food.
2 To prepare, get ready (for the seal hunt).
1873 CARROLL 27 Such seals are seldom seen by the ice hunters that
fit out from the east side.
3 To make netting into the size and
shape of a fish-net or trap.
1976 Evening Telegram 21 Jan,
p. 4 One thousand pounds of knitted fish net are for sale by tender at the Waterford
Hospital. The fish net, which needs to be 'fitted out' before it can actually be used in
the water, was knitted by about a dozen patients at the hospital.
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