master workman
Americannoun
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a worker in charge.
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a person who is master of a craft.
Etymology
Origin of master workman
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75
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The Trestle-Board is for the master workman to draw his designs upon.
From Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. by George Thornburgh
A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The great bulk of all manufacturing was done in small shops, each employing only a few workmen; and the manufacturer or master workman labored at the side of his journeymen and apprentices.
From Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker
In a day of haphazard fiction and rodomontade criticism, the advent of a master workman is likely to be unheralded, if, indeed, he is fortunate enough to find a publisher to put him between covers.
From Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin by Vincent Starrett
Yet he is a man, a master workman.
From The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond
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