glass-maker

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noun

a person who makes glass or glass objects

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Derived forms of glass-maker

glass-making, noun

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How to use glass-maker in a sentence

The watch-glass maker exercises a function distinct from any one of those we have hitherto been considering.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.--February, 1851.--Vol. II.|Various
For he was an experienced glass-maker and was perfectly sure that the phial was not made from Beroviero's ordinary glass.
Marietta|F. Marion Crawford
Everything was as Zorzi had left it, but the glass-maker's ear missed the low roar of the furnace.
Marietta|F. Marion Crawford
Isaac Chilton, a glass-maker, may have been brother or cousin of James.
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower|Annie Russell Marble

The glass-maker himself (not the cutter or the engraver) was evidently a piece-worker, earning at most 50s.
Old Irish Glass|Graydon Stannus