CRAFT, CRAFTSMAN (art)
ADJECTIVES
► SUBTLE skilful, clever, expert, dexterous; said of craftsmen → a1300 arch.
NOUNS
► MYSTERY craft, art; a trade, profession, calling → 1400 arch.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CONCEITIST a maker of conceits (fancy articles, trinkets, ornaments); a craftsman → 1628 obs.
► CRAFT a practitioner of a craft; a craftsman → 1842 Sc. & N. Eng. dial., obs.
► CRAFTIMAN ► CRAFTYMAN a person who is skilled at a craft; a skilled artisan, craftsman, etc. → 1000 obs.
► CRAFTMASTER a person who is expert and experienced in a craft or other skilled occupation; a master craftsman → 1557
► CRAFTY a person who is skilled in a particular occupation or activity; a craftsman → 1000 obs.
► CRAFTY, THE people who practise handicrafts considered as a class → 1989
► DÆDAL a craftsman or a skilled worker; a skilful artificer or fabricator → c1630 obs.
► DÆDALIST a craftsman or a skilled worker; an imitator of Dædalus → 1713
► DÆDALUS a craftsman or a skilled worker; a skilful or cunning artificer → c1630
► HANDCRAFTMAN a craftsman; a person, esp. a man, working in a skilled manual occupation; an artisan; a person who engages in handcraft → c1480
► HANDCRAFTSMAN a craftsman; a person, esp. a man, working in a skilled manual occupation; an artisan; a person who engages in handcraft → 1485
► HANDICRAFT a craftsman; a handicraftsman, a person, esp. a man working in a skilled manual occupation; an artisan; a person who engages in handicraft → 1547 obs.
► HANDICRAFTMAN a craftsman; a handicraftsman, a person, esp. a man working in a skilled manual occupation; an artisan; a person who engages in handicraft → a1544 chiefly Sth. Asian
► HANDICRAFTSMAN a craftsman; a person, esp. a man working in a skilled manual occupation; an artisan; a person who engages in handicraft → 1530-1 chiefly Sth. Asian
► HANDICRAFTSWOMAN a woman who engages in handicraft; a woman working in a skilled manual occupation → 1801
► HAND-WORKER a crafts person; person who works with his hands: opposed variously to one who works with his head, one who employs the hands of others, or one who works with a machine → 1480
► HANDY-CRAFTS-MAN a craftsman; a person, esp. a man working in a skilled manual occupation; an artisan; a person who engages in handicraft → 1530-1
► HANDYWRIGHT a craftsman; a worker with his hands → 1674 obs.
► MYSTERY-MAN a skilled worker; a craftsman → 1671 obs.