mechanic

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

• noun A worker skilled in making, using, or repairing machines, vehicles, and tools.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A professional card-shuffler usually employed to deal faro in brace games.
• Same as mechanical: now used chiefly in the phrase the mechanic arts.
• Belonging to or characteristic of the class of mechanics; common; vulgar; mean.
• Supporting the atomistic philosophy.
• noun Mechanic art; mechanics.
• noun Mechanism; structure.
• noun A maker of machines or machinery; hence, any skilled worker with tools; one who has learned a trade; a workman whose occupation consists in the systematic manipulation and constructive shaping or application of materials; an artificer, artisan, or craftsman.
• noun One who works mechanically; one who follows routine or rule in an occupation requiring careful thought or study: used opprobriously: as, a mere literary mechanic; the picture shows the artist to be only a mechanic.

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

• noun obsolete The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
• noun A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. Also, a technician who maintains or repairs machinery.
• adjective Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical.
• adjective Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
• adjective obsolete Base.

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

• adjective archaic mechanical; relating to the laws of motion in the art of constructing things
• adjective obsolete Of or relating to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
• adjective obsolete base
• noun A skilled worker capable of building or repairing machinery. A mechanic can be compared to a technician, the distinction being that the technician is stronger in theory, the mechanic stronger in hands-on experience.

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

• adjective resembling the action of a machine
• noun a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
• noun someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles