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单词 handworker
释义

handworkern.

Brit. /ˈhandwəːkə/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌwərkər/
Forms: see hand n. and worker n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: hand n., worker n.
Etymology: < hand n. + worker n., perhaps after Middle Dutch hantwerker (Dutch handwerker ). Compare Middle Low German hantwerker , Middle High German (in late sources) hantwerker (German Handwerker ). Compare earlier handwork n.In quot. 1565 rendering ancient Greek χειρουργός surgeon (see chirurge n.).
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.).
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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).
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