handicraftsman

Example Sentences

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That of a book involves two other demands mutually so contradictory that bookbinding has always offered a most attractive challenge to the skill of the handicraftsman.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

There I go every Saturday night, when the museum is open later than usual, to see the handicraftsman, the wood-worker, the glass-blower and the worker in metals. 

From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert

His self-respect made him wise and careful in regard to his dress, but in other matters many a handicraftsman was accustomed to more luxury than he.

From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by Castaigne, J. André

Menah or Menyah=artificer, artisan, builder, handicraftsman; cf. verb men=to build, found, establish, erect, also menta'al=to govern.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

Born in Norfolk, in 1785, he was apprenticed to a joiner, and, becoming a very superior handicraftsman, he rapidly took a prominent position as a maker of agricultural implements. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles