Word Meanings - STAFFMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A workman employed in silk throwing.

Related words: (words related to STAFFMAN)

• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• WORKMAN
  1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• WORKMANLY
  Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
• WORKMANLIKE
  Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• EMPLOYE
  One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
• THROWE
  A turning lathe.
• THROW-CROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• THROWING STICK
  An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds
• EMPLOYABLE
  Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.
• EMPLOY
  implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To inclose; to infold. Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as:
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• DISEMPLOY
  To throw out of employment. Jer. Taylor.
• TWO-THROW
  Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft.
• DOWNTHROW
  The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.