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
Example Sentences
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The experience which grows out of the sentence constitutes him a creator, a master workman, and lifts him into a higher region of life.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin
The number of apprentices that a master workman might employ was strictly limited, in order that the journeymen might not become too numerous.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
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 Baker, Charles Whiting
No, a hectoring, hard-mouthed, long-sworded Italian builder, as vain as a peacock and as strong as a bull, but, mark you, a master workman.
From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard
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 Starrett, Vincent
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