sketchern.1
/ˈskɛtʃə/, U.S. /ˈskɛtʃər/ 1.
a. One who sketches a picture, portrait, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > drawer or designer
drawer1570
designer1598
draftsman1664
morphographer1697
draughtsmanc1720
composer1723
sketcher1809
draughtswoman1845
fancier1856
proportionalist1857
draftman1889
graphic designer1971
draughtsperson1976
1809 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. June 65 I'll do as other sketchers do—Put any thing into the view.
1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 234 As a sketcher of likenesses, he disclosed the future power of the President.
1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany I. 70 As perfect a little domestic landscape as a sketcher could desire.
1888 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. III. v. 137 Creswick, though by nature a lazy fellow, was a pretty constant sketcher.
b. One who writes an outline sketch, or who jots down preliminary memoranda.
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society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > one who jots
jotter1827
sketcher1851
1851 J. H. Newman Lect. Present Position Catholics Eng. 311 Those who write books about a people or a school are hardly more than extempore sketchers; or they paint from memory.
1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 526 Others, again—the Sketchers, par excellence—began even their greatest works by noting down a few scraps of Subject, which they afterwards modified, enlarged, and improved.
2. An implement for sketching.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > instrument for sketching
sketcher1894
1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France I. 159 With a sketcher of flint,..a primeval man amused himself in delineating..such animals as he pursued in the chase.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sketchern.2
Scottish.
A skate. For the Scottish sketcher, etc., a skater, see Eng. Dial. Dict.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > skate
patten1617
scrick-shoe1659
skate1662
ice skate1786
sketcher1790
the steels1875
1790 A. Wilson Poems 196 Owre the Loch's clear frozen face, On skytchers thrang, in airy chace, Flew mony a cheery chiel.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. iii. 65 I thought sketchers were aye made of airn.
1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. xxiv. 214 A new strap for my skatcher.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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