handicraftsmann.
/ˈhandɪˌkrɑːf(t)smən/, /ˈhandɪˌkraf(t)smən/, U.S. /ˈhændiˌkræf(t)smən/ Now chiefly South Asian.
A person (esp. a man) working in a skilled manual occupation; an artisan, a craftsman; a person who engages in handicraft.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman
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1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 13 No person..being a comon Baker, Brewer..shall be interpreted or expounded handicrafts men.
1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace i. v. f. 16v Neyther an artyfycer or handye craftes man, is to be made or ordeyned a preeste.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 751 Bakers, Cookes, Vintners, and other handycrafts-men.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 450 All other artisans and handi-craftsmen.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. sig. b7 Off-cast words in the mouths of Handy-crafts-men and Earth-tillers.
1720 J. Chamberlayne tr. G. Brandt Hist. Reformation (new ed.) I. vi. 186 It seemed to them impossible that a Handicrafts-man should preach so well.
1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 23 All the handy-crafts-men..particularly carpenter's mates, caulkers.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 403 A handicraftsman from a laboratory, who had just succeeded in disoxydating an earth.
1879 Scribner's Monthly July 414/1 The introduction of labor-saving machinery throws handicraftsmen out of employment.
1939 Fortune Oct. 134/2 Small tradesmen and handicraftsmen, two groups that the Nazis had been at special pains to encourage during the reëmployment drive of the first plan.
1986 Amer. Scholar 65 451 The father..strongly favored the restriction of this education,..with the thought that the boy should follow in his own footsteps as a superior handicraftsman.
2011 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 18 Oct. A tribal handicraftsman will also come from Johna to display and impart the training of tribal wooden art and its making.
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ˈhandiˈcraftsmanship n.
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1847 J. B. Morris tr. St. Ephrem Select Wks. 377 If this belong to God, then is He also on a level with man, and however great in His handicraftsmanship, He is very little in His Godship.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 4 The man who best united literary handicraftsmanship with the highest scientific and technical mastery of his subject.
1920 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 34 764 He was particularly opposed to modern ‘quantity’ production and to machinery, preferring handicraftsmanship.
2004 Afr. News (Nexis) 21 Sept. He has a knack for handicraftsmanship. He can create almost anything with his hands, ranging from spoons to tools.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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