master workman

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He learned the ship-carpenter’s trade, and came to St. John with William Hazen in 1775 as a master workman to build ships for the firm of Hazen, Simonds and White.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)

In a day of haphazard fiction and rodomontade criticism, the advent of a master workman is likely to be unheralded, if, indeed, he is fortunate enough to find a publisher to put him between covers.

From Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin by Starrett, Vincent

The manufacturer was not a capitalist, but simply a master workman.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

The journeyman, for instance, voluntarily retards his marriage until he has become a master workman, and once he has attained that degree, he "works the golden mine of his trade."

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

The number of apprentices that a master workman might employ was strictly limited, in order that the journeymen might not become too numerous.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey