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handcraftman

handcraftman is the alternative form of handicraftsman.

Meaning of handicraftsman

Noun

handicraftsman (plural handicraftsmen)

  1. A practitioner of a handicraft, usually male.
    • I knowe, that a handie-crafts-man [translating artisan] will ſcarcely looke of his worke, to gaze vpon an ordinarie man: Whereas to ſee a notable great perſon come into a towne, he will leave both worke and ſhop.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 384

Forms of handcraftman

pluralhandcraftmen

Questions about handcraftman

What is handcraftman the alternative form of?
Handcraftman is the alternative form of handicraftsman.

Words near handcraftman in the dictionary

  1. handcrafted
  2. handcraftedness
  3. handcrafter
  4. handcrafters
  5. handcrafting
  6. handcraftman
  7. handcraftmen
  8. handcrafts
  9. handcraftsman
  10. handcraftsmanship
  11. handcraftsmanships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handcraftman (page history and authors); handicraftsman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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