handicraftsman
Americannoun
Gender
See -man.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of handicraftsman
First recorded in 1545–55; handicraft + 's 1 + man
Example Sentences
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As a student of art, he mourned over the reduction of the handicraftsman to a slave of the machine.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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
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 Smith, Preserved
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
Born in Norfolk, in 1785, he was apprenticed to a joiner, and, becoming a very superior handicraftsman, he rapidly took a prominent position as a maker of agricultural implements.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
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