handicraftsman
Americannoun
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handicraftsmen
plural
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of handicraftsman
First recorded in 1545–55; handicraft + 's 1 + man
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A handicraftsman 0 0 8 A common labourer, from 3d. to 5d.
Nor mine," said the Knave; "but no doubt you are a handicraftsman.
From Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
He spoke of himself visiting the South Kensington Museum on Saturday nights, "to see the handicraftsman, the wood-worker, the glass-blower, and the worker in metals."
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur
That of a book involves two other demands mutually so contradictory that bookbinding has always offered a most attractive challenge to the skill of the handicraftsman.
From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman
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
The specter of proletarian dependency haunted the lives of the country’s self-reliant handicraftsmen who watched apprehensively as shops employing wage labor began popping up across the country.
From Salon ● May 25, 2012
The Industrial Revolution, which replaced the tools of the independent workmen with machines owned by lenders of capital, had transformed handicraftsmen who were their own bosses into hired hands subject to the orders of managers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were about 16,000 to 20,000 persons employed at the diggings, comprising all classes, from the polite professions to handicraftsmen, runaway policemen, and seamen from the shipping.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)
We need not doubt that this consideration weighed with him when he rehandled the matter of Vitruvius and Pliny for the use of handicraftsmen.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
My companions of this kind were chiefly shopkeepers and handicraftsmen, with a priest or two among the number; clever fellows, respectable, and versed in all the ways of our Venetian world.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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