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artisan
Part of Speech: noun
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- For convenience in calculating the pitch diameter at pitch circle, or pitch diameter as it is termed, and the number of teeth of wheels, the following rules and table extracted from the Cincinnati Artisan and arranged from a table by D. A. Clarke, are given. - "Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II", Joshua Rose.
- The peer eats no more bread- probably he eats less- than the peasant; even when all his family and servants are reckoned, the quantity of bread consumed is comparatively little more than in an artisan's household; but while the peasant and the artisan would be made to feel with every mouthful that they were being starved in order that others might thrive, the few shillings a week that the peer would have to pay would be but a drop spilt from a full bucket, the loss of which no one could perceive. - "Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day", Alfred Farthing Robbins.
- Baume, as the Chief had called him, was a short, thick- set man with a great shock head sunk in low between a pair of enormous shoulders, betokening great physical strength; he stood on very thin but greatly twisted bow legs, and the quaintness of his figure was emphasized by the short black blouse or smock- frock he wore over his other clothes like a French artisan. - "The Rome Express", Arthur Griffiths.