Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The author, designer, producer, or performer of a work, especially of a great, or important work; a skilled workman or artificer.
- noun A superintendent of work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The performer of any work; a master workman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
craftsman who owns aworkshop .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Peter Carl Fabergé designer Mikhail Perkhin, workmaster Imperial Blue Serpent Egg Gold, blue guilloche enamel, opalescent white enamel, diamonds, sapphires
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And this indeed is formed, that it may be a tune; and therefore (as I said) the matter of the sound is before the form of the tune; not before, through any power it hath to make it a tune; for a sound is no way the workmaster of the tune; but is something corporeal, subjected to the soul which singeth, whereof to make a tune.
The Confessions 1999
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And who but Thou could be the workmaster of such wonders?
The Confessions 1999
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So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by his watching shall finish the work.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by his watching shall finish the work.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by his watching shall finish the work.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by his watching shall finish the work.
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Brown, already with a distinguished record in the Confederate States Navy to his credit, was appointed supervisory workmaster for the completing and arming of the boat.
War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911
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And who but Thou could be the workmaster of such wonders?
The Ninth Book 1909
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RALEIGH -- Whosoever is the workman, it is reason he should give an account of his work to his workmaster.
State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Harry Lushington Stephen 1902
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