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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man who practices a craft with great skill.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of a craft; an artificer; a mechanic; one skilled in a manual occupation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A male artisan.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a creator of great skill in the manual arts
  • noun a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
  • noun a professional whose work is consistently of high quality

Etymologies

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craft's +‎ -man

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