squaremann.
Scottish.
A carpenter, stone-cutter, or other workman who regularly uses a square for adjusting or testing his work.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with other specific tools or equipment
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c1790 Encycl. Brit. VI. 171/2 The incorporated trades [of Dumfries],..viz. square-men, smiths [etc.].
1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) i. 22 The Squaremen follow'd i' the raw, And syne the Weavers.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. i. 288 How many hammermen and squaremen, bakers and brewers,..must ply their old daily work.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 750/1 There was probably a pass-word, such as the squareman word used in the ‘brithering’ of the wrights and slaters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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