What is "etcher"

Usage examples of "etcher".

Ryn Rembrandt, the celebrated painter and etcher, practised his an at Hull for some time.

Greatly transcending Japanese expression, the modern etcher has undoubtedly accepted moral support from the islands of the Japanese.

Nevertheless, the French etcher would never have written his signs so freely had not the Japanese so freely drawn his own.

Miss Pansy Freake Todhunter was an etcher, and in that genre her work was fine, though no more thrilling -- to me at least -- than etchings usually are.

I had known her only as an etcher, and I am not fond of etchings, and particularly not little four-by-six things showing old Toronto houses of no special interest except, presumably, to an etcher.

He took an electric etcher and carefully scored the top of the cap with a crossmarking.

He took the first primer and frictiontaped it to the tip of -the electric etcher, then attached the taped bundle to the top of the fire extinguisher, molding it tight with putty.

When he had done the same with the second etcher and the second fire extinguisher, he looked at both of the jerry-rigged devices and shuddered.

Carlyle worked more in the manner of an etcher, the mordant acid eating deep into the plate.

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.

Those ducks of late had been all definitely painters, etchers, or sculptors, so that her impatience with the Forsytes and their hopelessly inartistic outlook had become intense.

They'd figured out that almost every part of the massive production floor, the size of an exhibition hall and filled with steppers, etchers, epitaxy machines, planarisers, deposition equipment and all kinds of physical science kit with strange names, was monitored by CCTV, but nobody had thought to mount a camera inside the ion-implantation machines.