Definitions

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

  • noun One who cuts and fits glass, as for doors and windows.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who fits window-glass to sash- and picture-frames.
  • noun One who applies the vitreous glaze to pottery.
  • noun plural Eyes.

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

  • noun One whose business is to set glass.
  • noun See under Diamond.

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

  • noun One who glazes; a craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc.

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

  • noun someone who cuts flat glass to size

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English glasier, from glas, glass; see glaze.]

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From glaze +‎ -er.

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Examples

  • Now I just have to fit them into their frame (I did one of them this morning), put in glazier's points, and figure out how I want to cover the back edges.

    Archive 2007-07-01 kittenpie 2007

  • Now I just have to fit them into their frame (I did one of them this morning), put in glazier's points, and figure out how I want to cover the back edges.

    Another Monday Miscellany kittenpie 2007

  • While I was at the coast I called a glazier I know who works cheap, but he couldn't come out till tomorrow.

    While Other People Sleep Muller, Marcia 1998

  • And he put his foot through a window so I called the glazier in

    The Gas-Man Cometh 1996

  • She then called a glazier, who promised to be out to her first thing in the morning.

    The Unquiet John Connolly 2007

  • She then called a glazier, who promised to be out to her first thing in the morning.

    The Unquiet John Connolly 2007

  • The glazier was a short, squat man who looked as if he had been born in blue dungarees.

    A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006

  • The glazier was a short, squat man who looked as if he had been born in blue dungarees.

    A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006

  • The glazier was a short, squat man who looked as if he had been born in blue dungarees.

    A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006

  • Before noon we got on top of a glazier, which is the ice of a frozen river, that moves all the time, sliding towards the sea.

    Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 1878

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  • A craftsman who paints and/or assembles glass windows.

    November 9, 2007