workwoman

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His Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through."

From Time Magazine Archive

The machine to sew hurries everything, and you find the workwoman sans ambition and busy only to hurry and be one with the machine.

From Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Campbell, Helen

I am not a tradesman myself, and I don't care to make money out of a workwoman.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de

These lines are struck with great rapidity, and with mathematical truth, by an instrument called a "beam compass," in the use of which this workwoman is most expert.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

The milliner—who was not unkind or hardhearted, only badly in debt—was touched, took her in hand with good-will, found her the most patient and earnest of pupils, and made her a good workwoman.

From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles