What is "artisans"

Usage examples of "artisans".

They disliked to submit to a tribunal of simple artisans and merchants, and fought their old feuds in the streets.

It is well known, indeed, that when the medieval cities were subdued in the sixteenth century by growing military States, all institutions which kept the artisans, the masters, and the merchants together in the guilds and the cities were violently destroyed.

Laws, gradually growing in severity, were passed to prevent artisans from combining in any way.

The London artisans are supposed to have never been better organized than in 1810-20.

James Watt spent twenty or more years of his life in order to render his invention serviceable, because he could not find in the last century what he would have readily found in medieval Florence or Brugge, that is, the artisans capable of realizing his devices in metal, and of giving them the artistic finish and precision which the steam-engine requires.

The number of wagons and mules and carts, carriages, oxcarts, drivers, artisans and craftsmen, horses and grooms, had been certain almost from the moment one oxcart had been necessary.

A wind had dispelled the heat wave that had lingered, according to the natives, unusually long into the autumn season, so it was no hardship to pass the afternoon in gossip and splendor as petitioners came and went, most of them artisans and guildsmen fashioning the many trappings and the great feast that would accompany the coronation.

Alban people and the land will become wasteland, worth less to you than the good crops farmers can grow to feed artisans and soldiers.

Let them be filled with artisans and laborers who will pay a tithe to our coffers in exchange for freedom to work.

Nay, I will make slaves where it benefits me, but let artisans and freeholders grow in such soil that will provide me with a rich crop.

For protection, some of the merchants funded societies formed by the local artisans and guild bosses.

I will be interested to hear how that sits with the testimony of some of those artisans formerly obligated to you, who have been finding surprising conditions attached to your so-called gifts.

As we passed inside the walls I saw that the Guild artisans with their dyes and fabrics seemed to occupy all the banks and bridges of the river.

I, having learned how sometimes good artisans were bothered by close observation, moved away to look out of the window into the courtyard.

They had brought together all the best of the surviving artisans from that region, they had provisioned the park for a siege, and they were urgently building a larger type of Butteridge machine.