Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose business is to blow and fashion glass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person skilled in the art of
glassblowing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass
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Examples
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As Jehl finished removing the air from the bulb, the Old Man called his glassblower, Ludwig Boehm, to fully seal off its base.
The Orange Revolution Adrian Gostick 2010
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As Jehl finished removing the air from the bulb, the Old Man called his glassblower, Ludwig Boehm, to fully seal off its base.
The Orange Revolution Adrian Gostick 2010
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As Jehl finished removing the air from the bulb, the Old Man called his glassblower, Ludwig Boehm, to fully seal off its base.
The Orange Revolution Adrian Gostick 2010
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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.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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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.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Tally glanced at the glassblower on the other side of the shed, blissfully unaware of the violent, horrible thing that was about to happen.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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Tally watched the glassblower with growing unhappiness.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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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 Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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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.
Danish astronomer was first to estimate the speed of light 300 years ago 2010
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Dead metal She stared at the glassblower at the other end of the shed.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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