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handworkers

handworkers is the plural of handworker.

Meaning of handworker

Noun

handworker (plural handworkers)

  1. One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
    • Among the handworkers in the shoe factories, the least skilled are those found in the sole-leather department, if there is one. Their work, described in Chapter III, requires little judgment and less dexterity […]1915, The Boot and Shoe Industry in Massachusetts as a Vocation for Women

Questions about handworkers

What is handworkers the plural of?
Handworkers is the plural of handworker.

Words near handworkers in the dictionary

  1. handwipe
  2. handwipes
  3. handwork
  4. handworked
  5. handworker
  6. handworkers
  7. handworking
  8. handworkman
  9. handworkmen
  10. handworks
  11. handwoven

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