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- noun An
inferior orsubordinate labourer .
Etymologies
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under- + workman
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Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master.
Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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