craftmaster

plural craftmasters

1. USnauticalA senior enlisted sailor qualified to operate small vessels and support craft.
2. alternativeAlternative form of craftsmaster.

   Pure clay, as the ancient craftmasters found, is a good find, but it cannot be shaped and fired in this state.

   1991, Michael W. Simpson, Making Native American Pottery, Happy Camp, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, →ISBN, page 19

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   There are establishments—just a sufficient number to make it plural—which have established, and are maintaining a certain standard in binding. Then there are others, where “our binder works at home,” and his associate craftmasters are his brothers and his sisters and his cousins and his aunts.

   1910 August, C. W. O’Connor, “American Library Bindery”, in The Library Journal: Chiefly Devoted to Library Economy and Bibliography, volume 35, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Publication Office, […]; London: […] Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., […], page 5

   THIS UNIQUE CHARM—INDIVIDUALITY—CHARACTER IN FURNITURE FINISH IS ATTAINABLE WITH OUR CHARACTER BUILT-IN PRODUCTS and simple working instructions—with materials formulated to meet most rigid requirements of exacting furniture craftmasters.

   1937 August, “Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company”, in Industrial Finishing, volume XIII, number 10, Indianapolis, Ind.: Practical Publications, Inc., […], page 8

   I was all over London this morning visiting craftmasters whose names begin with S. The Guildmaster gave me a list, but none of them knew anything about the chalice, candlesticks, and patens that have been copied.

   1999, Roberta Gellis, A Mortal Bane, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 303

   The lords of the court, and the craftmasters of the city filled the room, as did an even larger number of the Warlord’s men.

   2005, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Warprize, New York, N.Y.: Tor Romance, →ISBN, page 276

   A great deal, Submarshal, but much of it consists of the rather boring details of attempting to train semi-trained recruits and build a true compound in a town where the principal concern seems to be how many golds the craftmasters can milk from the Marshal of Myrmidons.

   2006, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt, Jr., Cadmian’s Choice (The Corean Chronicles; 5), New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 352