metallurgistn.
/mᵻˈtalədʒɪst/, /ˈmɛtlˌəːdʒɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɛdlˌərdʒəst/ A worker in metal; a person who is skilled in metallurgy as an art or craft. Also: an expert or specialist in metallurgy as a science (now the usual sense).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun]
metal man1566
metallist1611
metallurgist1670
metalworker1851
1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 22 If you be a good metallurgist and skilful mechanick.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Hundred The centner of the metallurgists contains an hundred pounds.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 245 That eminent Metallurgist Dr. Swab.
1814 T. Jefferson Let. 7 Sept. in Writings (1984) 1351 To that [professional school] of technical philosophy will come the..metallurgist, founder, cutler, druggist.., to learn as much as shall be necessary to pursue their art.
1871 Athenæum 3 June 690 The miners and metallurgists of the United States are trying to form an organization on the model of our Iron and Steel Institute.
1936 E. A. Atkins & A. G. Walker Electr. Arc & Oxy-acetylene Welding (ed. 3) xvii. 258 This hard condition of the steel is what is called ‘martensite’, the term being coined after a well-known metallurgist of the name of Maartens.
1965 G. J. Jones Fund. Workshop Technol. i. 10 The open-hearth process appears to have been introduced about 1865 by the French metallurgists the Martin brothers.
1998 Materials World 6 210/3 That's exactly the sort of information being demanded by metallurgists designing the next generation of superalloys.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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