manualist
Americannoun
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an advocate of manualism.
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a person who communicates through sign language.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of manualist
Example Sentences
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By labour, I mean the poor manualist, whom we properly call the labouring man, who works for himself indeed in one respect, but sometimes serves and works for wages, as a servant, or workman.
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Defoe, Daniel
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