handicraftsman
Americannoun
Gender
See -man.
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Etymology
Origin of handicraftsman
First recorded in 1545–55; handicraft + 's 1 + man
Example Sentences
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The old-type handicraftsman and small merchant are obviously menaced by modern industrial and business methods, and the peasant masses are in little better shape.
From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop
Other striking resemblances are found between the names for handicraftsman and master-builder in widely distant countries.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
And once the handicraftsman contemplates the shape as it issues from his fingers, his mind will be gripped by that liking or disliking expressed by the words "beautiful" and "ugly."
From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Lee, Vernon
The true welfare of the nation is indissolubly bound up in the welfare of the farmer and wage-worker; of the man who tills the soil, and of the mechanic, the handicraftsman, and the laborer.
From American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Stratemeyer, Edward
He is handicraftsman in that he guides and directs them by his skill within the scope of activity to which they are designed.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
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