tool-maker
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- tool-making noun
Example Sentences
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The company, which used to cut acrylic, was not considered a machine tool-maker - but it eventually developed machinery to cut glass and became "the star of Apple's mobile phone surface processing," Mr Lin says.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025
Dook Box is in fact Philip Wickenden, 63, a tool-maker from Cadbury Heath, near Bath.
From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2010
The inventor employed a tool-maker who was the finest and best tool-maker I had ever seen.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
By trade a journeyman tool-maker, this gnome worked for the wheelwrights when work was plentiful, but he also hired himself out for any extra labor which was well paid.
From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de
If Body is the tool chest which we carry about with us, as Samuel Butler said, then to the thyroid belongs the name of tool-maker.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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