handicraftsman
noun
a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
handicraftsmen
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pluralof handicraftsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Does it not lend additional divinity that Christianity should have arisen among peasants and handicraftsmen?
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
Soon follow a blacksmith, and other handicraftsmen, in useful succession.
From Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe by William Bingley
So soon as the towns had acquired power, and contained a well-organized body of the trades, hostility arose against new immigrants, mostly propertyless peasants, who wanted to settle as handicraftsmen.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
