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workman
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English weorcmsnn ; see work (n.) + man (n.). Similar formation in Dutch werkman , Old Norse verkmaðr .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Workman or WORKman may refer to: A worker, part of the work force Workman (surname) , an English surname Workman, a CD player application for UNIX-like operating systems programmed in OpenLook One of several work management applications, including, for ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a workman , you need to husband your strength. ▪ He also showed concern for the safety of workmen on his projects and sensitivity towards their impact on the environment. ▪ He called to the workmen, and they put their shoulders ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an employee who performs manual or industrial labor [syn: working man , working person ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A man who labours for wages 2 An artisan or craftsman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Workman \Work"man\, n.; pl. Workmen . [AS. weorcmann.] A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
Usage examples of workman.
There came to their great aeronautic parks at Chinsi-fu and Tsingyen by the mono-rails that now laced the whole surface of China a limitless supply of skilled and able workmen, workmen far above the average European in industrial efficiency.
The sunlight streamed through a window high above the floor and fell upon the arched back of the annealing oven, the window being so placed that the sun could never shine upon the working end and dazzle the workmen.
In a moment it would be finished and ready to go to the annealing oven, though he was even then reflecting that the workmen would certainly break it up as soon as the foreman turned his back.
A moment later I heard a noise like ten dog-fights rolled into one, and rushing out I found my friend rolling on the ground with his arms round the workman who was helping to stack my artesian tubing.
The workmen, grimy with the black ashy soot of the tunnels and pits of the ruined house, groaned with effort as they hoisted the heavy crate up onto the table and let it fall with a massive thump.
The workmen placed the flowers and wreaths upon the mound and about it, and Bibbs altered the position of one or two of these, then stood looking thoughtfully at the grotesque brilliancy of that festalseeming hillock beneath the darkening November sky.
The gate guards were processing a crowd of new workmen in a considerable uproar, letting them through one by one like counted gold coins, to buses waiting beyond the gate.
In order not to alarm the middle classes the workmen had been requested, notably those employed by Derosne and Cail, to come in coats.
How in the nine hells had those damned Deese wizards guessed so quickly that the workmen had been poisoned rather than bewitched?
Even though the workmen were separated from the river by the fence, the dilos could spit right through it, delivering their blinding poison.
In order to do fieldwork he needed a competent dragoman, or guide and interpreter, who could oversee his thieving workmen and hand out baksheesh up and down the Nile.
He accepted, with pleasure, the useful reinforcement of hardy workmen, who labored in the gold mines of Thrace, for the emolument, and under the lash, of an unfeeling master: and these new associates conducted the Barbarians, through the secret paths, to the most sequestered places, which had been chosen to secure the inhabitants, the cattle, and the magazines of corn.
The town workman was enfranchised by this Act as the middle-class man had been enfranchised by the Act of 1832, and the electorate was increased from about 100,000 to 2,000,000.
But money, as well as men, was wanting, and a heavy contribution was imposed to defray the expense of enrolling a number of workmen out of employment and idlers, of various kinds.
By the side of each of these batteries other workmen were strengthening gabions filled with earth, the lining of another battery.