Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One whose business is to blow and fashion glass.
Wiktionary
- n. A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. someone skilled creating objects such as bottles, vases, or other decorative or practical items from molten glass, especially one whose occupation is to make objects by blowing and shaping hot glass in its viscous semiliquid state.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass
Examples
“As Jehl finished removing the air from the bulb, the Old Man called his glassblower, Ludwig Boehm, to fully seal off its base.”
“The glassblower is a classic, like the sower who goes forth to sow, the potter at his wheel, and the grinding of grain with mortar and pestle.”
“Romer returned home to Copenhagen to marry, to be his country's chief astronomer and to help a German glassblower, Daniel Fahrenheit, invent a better thermometer.”
The Washington Post: Danish astronomer was first to estimate the speed of light 300 years ago
“Dead metal She stared at the glassblower at the other end of the shed.”
“Tally glanced at the glassblower on the other side of the shed, blissfully unaware of the violent, horrible thing that was about to happen.”
“Tally watched the glassblower with growing unhappiness.”
“In his hands, information was something live and molten, ready to freeze into a hard shape at any moment, something crystalline yet negotiable; he nudged and shaped it like glass in the hands of a glassblower.”
“The author incorporated the four Greek classical elements of the physical world when writing Mariannes legends: Sei lived as a glassblower (Air) and died by being buried alive (Earth).”
“EB: Your dad is Simon Pearce, a renowned glassblower and designer.”
Erica Boeke: Not Your Regular 21-Year-Old Snowboarder: A Q&A with Kevin Pearce
“Like Rip van Winkle, the armonica slumbered for over a century, until 1984 when master glassblower Gerhard Finkenbeiner of Boston revived the art.”
Celestial Music of the Spheres: Dean Shostak Plays Glass Instruments
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glassblower’.
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The Glassworks
filigree-glass, vitro-di-trina, reticulated glass, latticinio, schmelze, swing-table, cullet, ratsbane, eskalith, fly-frame, polissoir, flattener and 158 more...
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I made this!
People who make stuff.
milliner, jeweler, silversmith, cobbler, draper, goldsmith, locksmith, carpenter, joiner, baker, stonemason, wheelwright and 43 more...
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