What is "draftsman"

Usage examples of "draftsman".

And yet he was one of the last great draftsmen of a tradition that, after being carried up to the turn of the last century by a handful of English etchers, died out in formalistic experimentation.

The thing was a pantograph, an adjustable device used by draftsmen for copying plans.

Meister, a draftsman and amateur trilobite collector, reported finding a shoe print in the Wheeler Shale near Antelope Spring, Utah.

For our demagogues are legislators and legal draftsmen, more subtle, more vindictive, more dangerous by far than simple inciters of riots!

And there are engine men and fitters, foremen, timekeepers, clerks, draftsmen and engineers.

Figures in stained glass-- fishermen and loggers, carpenters and peat miners, draftsmen and bartenders -- seemed to move because of the mist, slowly counting days of endless toil.

Indeed, throughout his campaigns Alexander had brought along Greek surveyors and draftsmen to map the lands he explored and conquered many of them barely known to the ancient Greek world he came from.

Boaz-Jachin sold maps and worked on the special orders with surveyors, information-gatherers and draftsmen.

For in the Central Building Board office back at the base camp, where several hundred German architects, engineers, and draftsmen work in comfort on Auschwitz's never-ending expansion plans, the word is "Give it to Klinger," when a job requires quick, visible results.

The organ of imitation is very strongly developed in the Bushmen, which accounts for their talents as draftsmen, and Omrah's remarkable imitative powers.

He found the usual glut of accounting and auto body jobs, but once again no draftsmen.

The lilt of the rolling green hills, the upsurging cypresses, the terraces sculptured by generations that have handled the rocks with skillful tenderness, the fields geometrically juxtaposed as though drawn by a draftsman for beauty as well as productivity.