pipe fitter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pipe fitter
First recorded in 1885–90
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A subtle reference to Serra’s father, a pipe fitter at a shipyard near San Francisco, it also puts us in mind of Charon’s ferry, shuttling souls across Stygian waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Older brother Ralph Wellman Brewer wrote on a GoFundMe page that Peyton Brewer-Ross was “doing well in life,” with a job as a pipe fitter he loved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
He had told doctors he was pipe fitter James Kelly.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2022
He dropped out of high school at 15 to work in New Mexico’s oil industry, first as a welder and then as a pipe fitter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2022
The rest of the research staff included a machinist and pipe fitter, a general utility girl, a glass blower to make special apparatus, and Chitty.
From I Walked in Arden by Jack Crawford
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