craftmaster

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Etymology

From craft +‎ master.

Noun

craftmaster (plural craftmasters)

(US, nautical) A senior enlisted sailor qualified to operate small vessels and support craft.
Alternative form of craftsmaster.
- 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:
  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.
- 1937 August, “Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company”, in Industrial Finishing, volume XIII, number 10, Indianapolis, Ind.: Practical Publications, Inc., […], page 8:
  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.
- 1991, Michael W. Simpson, Making Native American Pottery, Happy Camp, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, →ISBN, page 19:
  Pure clay, as the ancient craftmasters found, is a good find, but it cannot be shaped and fired in this state.
- 1999, Roberta Gellis, A Mortal Bane, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 303:
  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.
- 2005, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Warprize, New York, N.Y.: Tor Romance, →ISBN, page 276:
  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.
- 2006, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt, Jr., Cadmian’s Choice (The Corean Chronicles; 5), New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 352:
  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.