handicraftsman
Americannoun
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handicraftsmen
plural
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See -man.
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Origin of handicraftsman
First recorded in 1545–55; handicraft + 's 1 + man
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There I go every Saturday night, when the museum is open later than usual, to see the handicraftsman, the wood-worker, the glass-blower and the worker in metals.
From Miscellanies by Robert Ross
Medieval agriculture was carried on by peasants holding small amounts of land which would correspond to the small shops and slender capital of the handicraftsman.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
But to men who work with their hands there must always be something specially inspiring in the life and example of one who was a handicraftsman and so much beside.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
The shop-keepers in this and every other town must break and starve: for it is the landed man that maintains the merchant, and shop-keeper, and handicraftsman.
From Political Pamphlets by George Saintsbury
We could not help wishing that some rural grandee, who avows that he hates all manufacturers, could see this fair specimen of an English handicraftsman.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
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
Many of the painters and sculptors of the time had been goldsmiths or workers in metal, and nearly all of them were handicraftsmen, handy with their hands and capable of doing things.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
No class of persons was more zealous for the new Constitution, than the handicraftsmen, artisans, and manufacturers.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster
In the present relatively backward stage of Russian industrial development these are chiefly handicraftsmen, who mainly supply the needs of local consumers.
From Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 by Samuel Joseph
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