Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Variant of draftsman.
- n. Games Chiefly British One of the pieces used in draughts; a checker.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See draftsman.
Wiktionary
- n. A person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans.
- n. A piece in the game of draughts (checkers).
- n. obsolete One who drinks drams; a tippler.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who draws pleadings or other writings.
- n. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.
- n. A “man” or piece used in the game of draughts.
- n. obsolete One who drinks drams; a tippler.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines
Etymologies
- From draught's + man. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But inversely, the bureaucratic draughtsman is truly the more sublime artist, the one favored by God with the gift to fill Man's soul with Divine Grace, though unfortunately, he still dies penniless and in obscurity.”
“If you say that Dali, though a brilliant draughtsman, is a dirty little scoundrel, you are looked upon as a savage.”
“Papillon himself, while described as a draughtsman of the utmost accuracy, was criticized for making his work so minute that it was impossible to print clearly.”
John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut
“The draughtsman will be a master in building palaces or temples, and will carve statues and will paint pictures; for the said Master Michael and Raphael and Baltesar di”
“Juan de la Cosa of Santoña, afterwards well known as a draughtsman and”
“The lusty frankness, the jovial ingenuity, the keen sense of the ridiculous, the insatiable instinct of observation, of the draughtsman are a great part of the equipment of the playwright.”
“A draughtsman is the very fellow we want," he cried; "and a draughtsman who can wield weapons as you can, John Stark, is the very man for us.”
“The artist plays several roles in his work; he is at once choreographer, performer, and draughtsman.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Bush: Drawing on Experience: This Artweek.LA (May 23-29)
“Paris art "Claude Lorrain: The Draughtsman Studying Nature" exhibits preparatory drawings, large-scale landscape paintings and early sketches by the French painter, engraver and draughtsman.”
“Unlike Frédéric Moreau in Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale to which owes no meagre debt, Piet is magnificently gifted, not only "extremely attractive to most women and to many men", but also a fine pianist, draughtsman and lover.”
The Guardian: History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason – review
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valse "A draughtsman or draftsman (the former more often in the UK, the latter more often in the US, and pronounced the same) is a person skilled in drawing, either:
* drawing for artistic purposes, or
* technical drawing for practical purposes such as architecture or engineering."
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Aug 3, 2007