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A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines
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draughtsman
Word definitions for draughtsman in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Degas may have been a fine draughtsman , but he was not a painter. ▪ Front, and, trainee draughtsman . ▪ Her skill as a draughtsman appears in innumerable witty pen-and-ink illustrations to her letters. ▪ I thought he was a very ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from genitive of draught + man (n.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Draughtsman \Draughts"man\, n.; pl. Draughtsmen . One who draws pleadings or other writings. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind. A ``man'' or piece used ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines [syn: draftsman , draftsperson ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans. 2 (context obsolete English) A book illustrator. 3 A piece in the game of draughts (checkers). 4 (context obsolete English) One who drinks drams; a tippler.
Usage examples of draughtsman.
But as these are freehand lines, it requires some taste and knowledge to draw them properly, and of course in a large drawing several more squares and circles might be added to aid the draughtsman.
For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale.
I was born with this gift which certainly doesn't look like much when you compare me with all the far superior draughtsmen who've lived and died.
Outside that armed barrier all the household would be gathered, and all the workmen who had built the church, the plumbers, the glaziers, the masons, the joiners, the clerks and draughtsmen, the labourers.
They had been drawn from those Anson had captured in these very waters sixty years ago, and every one knew about Dago charts — and Dago charts submitted to the revision of useless Admiralty draughtsmen might be completely unreliable.
But the day he was born he was a better draughtsman than the drippers and spitters they're wild for today.