Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man skilled in some special manual work; one who gets his living by a manual trade; an artisan; a mechanic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man skilled or employed in handcraft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A practitioner of a
handicraft , usually male.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But it is evidently not enough to say that the labour-saving machine has merely substituted the stored and concentrated effort of the inventor for that labour of the handicraftsman which is saved.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899
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Ad Reinhardt publicly referred to Barnett Newman as "the avant-garde-huckster-handicraftsman and educational shopkeeper" and castigated his "transcendental nonsense."
Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists Daniel Grant 2010
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Ad Reinhardt publicly referred to Barnett Newman as "the avant-garde-huckster-handicraftsman and educational shopkeeper" and castigated his "transcendental nonsense."
Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists Daniel Grant 2010
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Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images A stove handicraftsman worked in his workshop near the town of Belovo, Bulgaria.
Cold Grips Europe 2009
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Then the handicraftsman worked in his own home, surrounded by his family, upon a task all the processes of which he had mastered, giving him thus a sense of interest and pride in the work being well and thoroughly done.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Then the handicraftsman worked in his own home, surrounded by his family, upon a task all the processes of which he had mastered, giving him thus a sense of interest and pride in the work being well and thoroughly done.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Then the handicraftsman worked in his own home, surrounded by his family, upon a task all the processes of which he had mastered, giving him thus a sense of interest and pride in the work being well and thoroughly done.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Then the handicraftsman worked in his own home, surrounded by his family, upon a task all the processes of which he had mastered, giving him thus a sense of interest and pride in the work being well and thoroughly done.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Then the handicraftsman worked in his own home, surrounded by his family, upon a task all the processes of which he had mastered, giving him thus a sense of interest and pride in the work being well and thoroughly done.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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There was an aged handicraftsman, it is true, who had been a citizen of London at the period of Sir
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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