Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who works in glass; one engaged in any capacity in the manufacture of glass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun one who cuts flat glass to size.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who makes
glasswork .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who cuts flat glass to size
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Examples
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Alberich had been here once before, when he had commissioned his window, and then, as now, it had occurred to him how like a glassworker Vkandis Sunlord was.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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Alberich had been here once before, when he had commissioned his window, and then, as now, it had occurred to him how like a glassworker Vkandis Sunlord was.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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He was a good glassworker, strong and skilled, but he couldn't travel.
The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000
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A little fiddling and the addition of the crystals on each set as well as the mirrors-simple polished lenticular lenses that any glassworker could make-had made it possible to have images and the audible voices of the two users.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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A little fiddling and the addition of the crystals on each set as well as the mirrors-simple polished lenticular lenses that any glassworker could make-had made it possible to have images and the audible voices of the two users.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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In one area, the stones, too, were broken away — this was undoubtedly what Ceridwen wanted repaired, for the dwarf was no glassworker.
The Woods Out Back Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1993
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A foreign glassworker searching for the books of a reputed wizard who made the Hildesheim bronze they are so proud of.
Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910
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We are ignorant tourists, liable to much error in trying to seek motives in artists who worked seven hundred years ago for a society which thought and felt in forms quite unlike ours, but the medieval pilgrim was more ignorant than we, and much simpler in mind; if the idea of an ornament occurs to us, it certainly occurred to him, and still more to the glassworker whose business was to excite his illusions.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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The glassworker here in the interior had the same task to perform.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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The border of the southern window does not count as it should; something is wrong with it and a little study shows that the builder, and not the glassworker, was to blame.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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