单词 | handworker |
释义 | handworkern. A person who works with his or her hands (in later use frequently opposed to one who works at a machine); a manual labourer; a craftsperson.In quot. 1565: spec. a surgeon (cf. note in etymology at handworking n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker workmaneOE handworker1480 manuary1581 hand labourer1583 manualist1592 operator1598 apron-mana1616 aproneer1659 apron-rogue1664 handler1763 blue-collar1951 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 42 Rolande the handwerker Shall make my pryelle An hegge aboute. 1565 J. Hall in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Epist. sig. Ɨ.iiv The phisicien for inwarde infirmities, and the chirurgien or handeworker for outwarde griefes. 1615 T. Jackson Justifying Faith ii. i. 160 Taking vpon him..to be architect or chiefe plotter of those edifices, wherein he should be but a labourer or handworker. 1785 R. Geoghegan Thoughts Patricius xvii. 94 His hand-workers there look bold, independent, well fed, and well cloathed. 1844 League 10 Aug. 739/2 Be he..merchant, manufacturer or handworker. 1862 M. T. Morrall Hist. Needle-making 20 The hand-workers' prices were much reduced by the machines. 1910 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 74 101 Among hand-workers and workers who control their machines, systems of pace-setting are combined with piece-rate payments to keep up the speed. 1972 Sunday Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 23 Apr. c4/3 Try your hand at quilling—the latest of the great-grandmother skills to be revived for today's handworkers. 2000 Isis 91 256 From the most noble philosopher to the engineer to the master builder to the most vulgar handworker. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1480 |
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