journeymann.
/ˈdʒəːnɪmən/, U.S. /ˈdʒərnimən/ 1. One who, having served his apprenticeship to a handicraft or trade, is qualified to work at it for days' wages; a mechanic who has served his apprenticeship or learned a trade or handicraft, and works at it not on his own account but as the servant or employee of another; a qualified mechanic or artisan who works for another. Distinguished on one side from apprentice, on the other from master.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > hireling > hired by the day
journeyman1463
day labourer1528
daytal1548
serviceman1582
dayman1584
dayworker1587
daysman1617
journeywoman1733
journey-workman1756
darger1803
peon1826
jour1835
dataller1844
dargsman1845
journey-worker1887
journalier1891
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman > qualified or employed by other
journeyman1463
companion1776
1463–4 Rolls Parl. V. 506/2 Aswell housholders as journeymen, Servauntes and Apprenticez.
1481 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 332 If any of the Jornaymen of the saide crafte be electe Warden.
1553 Cov. Leet Bk. 806 For a yornyman or a Suffycyent servaunte not aboue vj d. a daye.
1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 3v To geue my Iourneimen two pence in a day more.
1608 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 214 No younge man, journamen nor prentice.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 14 Oct. 217 My Mistress..rose early in the morning to set the journeymen to work.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 274 The government appears to have had no hold on such a man, except the hold which master bakers and master tailors have on their journeymen.
1863 W. G. Blaikie Better Days for Working People (1864) ii. 81 The journeyman tyrannises over the apprentice.
2. figurative (chiefly depreciatory): (a) one who is not a ‘master’ of his trade or business; (b) one who drudges for another; a hireling, one hired to do work for another.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > hireling
hireling1535
hackney1546
journeyman1548
coolie1622
mercedary1656
hack1699
hiree1811
society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > not master of trade
journeyman1548
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. liiiiv Euery iorneiman of their faction..put all their..diligence to avance forward their sect and part.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 33 Non-residents with their iourneimen the hedge priests.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 33 You would a thought, some of Natures journeymen [1623 Iouerney-men] Had made men, and not made them well.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 20 He attended at them..and acted in them vivâ voce, and did not put off the work to journey~men.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vi. 62 A Lord being too Great to Pray to God himself, when he keeps a Journey-man or Chaplain to do that drudgery for him.
1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. vi. 112 The colouring was worse,..than that of the most errant journeymen to the profession.
1817 Title of Print May A Master Parson and his Journeyman.
3.
a. Astronomy. More fully, journeyman clock: a secondary clock in an observatory, used generally as an intermediary in the comparison of standard clocks.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > secondary clocks > in an observatory
journeyman1765
1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 373 I fixed up a little clock there, which may be called a journeyman or secondary clock, having a pendulum swinging seconds.
1787 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 330 (note) The journeyman clock was generally set to the transit clock on Sunday mornings... The journeyman will generally agree with the transit clock to 2´ in 24 hours.
1890 J. Service Sk. Jas. Dunlop in Thir Notandums 162 The journeyman employed was compared with a sidereal clock.
b. = impulse dial n. at impulse n. Compounds 2.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > secondary clocks
journeyman1904
impulse clock1923
impulse dial1931
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 384/1 Master clock, the timepiece controlling and actuating by electricity a series of dial works, or ‘journeymen’, at different points in the circuit.
1923 H. R. Langman & A. Ball Electr. Horol. v. 82 Clocks coming under this section are generally..designated as dials, impulse clocks, secondary clocks, journeyman clocks, sympathetic clocks, or step by step movements.
1938 J. W. Player Britten's Watch & Clock Maker's Handbk. (ed. 14) 159 Secondary clocks, sometimes called impulse clocks, dial works, or journeyman clocks, are simple constructions.
c. In an electric time circuit, a clock consisting of dial and handwork controlled and actuated by the master-clock of the circuit.
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1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 327/2 Indicator Dial, the ‘journeyman’ clock, consisting only of a dial and handwork, with electrical fittings.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as journeyman tailor, journeyman work; journeyman-like adj. and adv.
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1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 407 Alle jorneymen straungers comynge to the seid cite.
1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 424 Journy-man-like hee travailes from place to place, seeking to be set on worke before he hath learnt his trade.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 109 You may hire poor Journy-men Taylers, here in the Citty.
1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 29 Journeymen Clergymen putting on their best Bands and Cassocks.
1826 in W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 23 Sept. 784 A journeyman parson comes and works in three or four churches of a Sunday.
1864 M. Arnold in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 172 To raise the standard amongst us for what I have called the journeyman-work of literature.
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