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fit-out 
1 n. clothing, provisions, and equipment; outfit.
- 1829 (1830) Those engaged in the pursuit were persons of the poorest description, who, commencing without capital, without any thing, in fact, but the power of bodily labour, had to procure credit in the first instance, and then fight up-hill under an accumulation of debt for their fit-out, their annual equipment, and their winter-stores, which keeps the greater part of them at this moment in arrear on the books of the merchant.
- 1852 . . . they came en masse to the fort, with their sledges and all their movables, to receive another fit-out.
- 1954 Aid to the men ranged from a new blanket to a new fitout, including a new dress suit to the value of $25.
2 n. Nfld of a ship, the process of taking on gear, provisions, and crew.
- 1955 [Headline] Local Sealer Begins Fitout Many Seek Berth Aboard.
- 1829 (1830) Those engaged in the pursuit were persons of the poorest description, who, commencing without capital, without any thing, in fact, but the power of bodily labour, had to procure credit in the first instance, and then fight up-hill under an accumulation of debt for their fit-out, their annual equipment, and their winter-stores, which keeps the greater part of them at this moment in arrear on the books of the merchant.