What is "prenticeship"

Usage examples of "prenticeship".

It was the place where Alvin Maker was born, and where he returned twelve years later to serve his prenticeship to the blacksmith there.

I came to that knowledge, for, as a hatchling, I was put to prenticeship with Rusloog who was one of the greatest swamp travelers my village knew.

The responsibilities were overwhelming despite his thorough prenticeship, and his workload was staggering.

I served a prenticeship with every kind of crafter in Midd so I could learn the techniques and requirements of all of the crafts.

Hatrack River he knew was the village of his prenticeship, with a town square and a church with a preacher and Whitley Physicker to tend the sick and even a post office and enough folks with enough children that they got them up a subscription and hired them a schoolteacher.

But during all the years of his prenticeship, he had never heard one word of praise from this man, nothing but complaints about how lazy Alvin was, and how second-rate his work was, and all the time Makepeace Smith was lying, all the time he knew Alvin was good.

July, and all the while he kept most of what happened in his seven-year prenticeship to himself.

The solemnity and the scope of what took place there left no doubt in my mind that our ap- prenticeships had come to their concluding moment, and that I was indeed seeing don Juan and don Genaro for the last time.