manuary

1. not comparableobsoleteManual; involving (skills using) the hands.

   manuary trades

   1 more example

   And as on the one side the Cochin-Chinois haue no wrought Stuffes nor Manufactures, because they doe not apply themselues to Manuary trades, by reason of that idlenesse into which their plenty hath plunged them: and that on the other side they are easily inueigled with the curiosities comming from other places[…]such as Combes, Needles, Bracelets, Beades of glasse to hang in their eares, and such other trifles and womanish curiosities.

   1633, Christoforo Borri, translated by Robert Ashley, Cochin-China

plural manuaries

1. obsoleteAn artificer, a craftsman.

   That there was a short go in his first draught seemes not very probable, for what likenesse is there betweene go and sed that his Manuary or printer should take the one for the other?

   1615, Edward Hoby, A curry-combe for a coxe-combe. Or Purgatories knell, page 79

   2 more examples

   The common is deuided into marchauntes and manuaries generally, vvhat partition ſoeuer is the ſubdiuident. Marchandize containeth vnder it all thoſe vvhich liue any vvay by buying or ſelling: Manuarie thoſe vvhoſe handyvvorke is their vvare, and labour their liuing.

   1581, Richard Mulcaster, “Of the Training Vp of Yong Gentlemen. […] What It is to be a Nobleman, or a Gentleman. […]”, in Positions wherin Those Primitive Circvmstances be Examined, which are Necessarie for the Training Vp of Children, either for Skill in Their Booke, or Health in Their Bodie. […], London: […] Thomas Vautrollier for Thomas Chare [i.e., Chard], →OCLC, page 198

   I ask how we can make sense of the dissonance between two things: one, [Ben] Jonson's own non-aristocratic background and two, his own social ambition and disdain for laborers. […] [T]he Parnassus plays describe him as the "merriest bricklayer" who ever put pen to paper. If his evident disdain for manuaries and commoners is any indication, the socially and poetically ambitious Jonson would have no doubt bristled at this description […]

   2018, By Laurie Ellinghausen, Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667, Taylor & Francis