fabricatorn.
/ˈfabrᵻkeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈfæbrəˌkeɪdər/ 1. A person who or thing that frames or fashions.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creator
forgerc1380
authora1382
feigner1382
formerc1386
founderc1390
makera1450
plasmatoura1500
constitutor1531
framer1534
creator1548
fashioner1548
opificer1548
essentiator1561
creatress1590
effecter1591
compactor1593
moulder1594
creatrix1595
mouldress1599
effector1635
composer1644
plastic1644
opifex1649
fabricator1650
formator1656
efformer1662
essentializer1669
constituenta1676
crafter1907
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer
maker1297
workera1382
preparatorc1485
opificer1548
preparer1553
manufactora1649
opifex1649
manufacturera1687
faker1688
fabricant1756
fabricator1863
prepper1970
1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. ix. 20 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) The Allmighty Fabricator of the Univers, who doth nothing in vain.
1766 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 283 These worms appeared evidently, instead of being the fabricators of it, to have pierced their way into the soft substance.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 504 Domestic Fabricators are too apt to fail in this particular, thinking that when they have mixed together a portion of sugar and fruit their labour is done.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vii. iii. 114 The grotesque genius of its fabricator.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. i. 26 The Deity as the fabricator of Adam's language.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man ix. 166 They teach us that the fabricators of the antique tools..were all post-glacial.
2. In negative sense: a person who frames a false statement or forges a document; a forger.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > one who forges or falsifies
counterfeiterc1430
falsary1435
forger1552
mangonist1605
forgerer1607
falsificator1609
duffer1735
fabricator1795
faker1819
penman1865
1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music iii. 191 The Translator or Fabricator of the Works of Ossian.
1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 231 Had they been fabricators of these genealogies, they would have been exposed at the time to instant detection.
1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory III. vi. 82 The fabricator of a forged will.
3. Archaeology. A rod-shaped flint implement, perhaps used in the manufacture of other flint tools. (See also quot. 1954.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of
flintstonec1400
celt1748
fairy hammer1815
axe1851
flint-flake1851
stone-axe1864
flake-knife1865
scraper1865
thumb-flint1865
tool-stone1865
saddle quern1867
fabricator1872
grattoir1872
hammer-stone1872
tribrach1873
flake1875
hand-axe1878
pick1888
turtle-back1890
racloir1892
eolith1895
pebble chopper1895
palaeotalith1897
tranchet1899
point1901
pygmy flint1907
microlith1908
Gravette1911
keeled scraper1911
lissoir1911
coup de poing1912
end-scraper1915
burin1916
rostro-carinate1919
tortoise core1919
blade1921
axe-adze1925
petit tranchet1926
tournette1927
pebble tool1931
raclette1932
biface1934
cleaver1935
thumbnail scraper1937
microblade1959
linguate1966
1872 J. Evans Anc. Stone Implements xvii. 367 A characteristic specimen of the tool to which I have provisionally assigned the name of ‘flaking-tool’, or fabricator.
1877 W. Greenwell Brit. Barrows 35 Those [sc. articles found in barrows] of flint, include hatchets; scrapers;..fabricators or flaking tools.
1930 Antiquity 4 27 ‘Fabricators’ are rare, borers very rare, and calcined flints (‘potboilers’) exceedingly scarce.
1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles x. 286 There is good evidence for regarding a large proportion of ‘fabricators’ as strike-a-lights used with pyrites to produce a spark.
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