mechanick

Noun

mechanic (plural mechanics)

1. (historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
   • His noble earnestness, his fidelity, his gallant shielding of her, his generous conquest of his own wrong and his own pride for her sake, are simply honourable, manly, and true. Nothing less worthy can be seen through the lustre of such qualities in the commonest mechanic, nothing less worthy can...1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
2. Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.

   Synonyms:

   grease monkey

3. A device, method or means; a function.
   1. (tabletop games) A function, rule or other implementation that dictates gameplay; a ludeme, a feature.
      • This game has a mechanic where if you run toward a ledge you automatically jump off rather than just falling.
4. (slang) A hitman.
   • And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing. Overnight he became the best grunt we had, a real killer, a mechanic.1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250
5. A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
   • I can do other things beside burglarizing. I'm a first-class crap dealer, I'm a pretty good card mechanic, pretty good dice mechanic.1969, Bruce Jackson, A Thief's Primer, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 91

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