mechanic

A worker skilled in making, using, or repairing machines, vehicles, and tools.

A professional card-shuffler usually employed to deal faro in brace games.

Same as mechanical: now used chiefly in the phrase the mechanic arts.

Belonging to or characteristic of the class of mechanics; common; vulgar; mean.

Supporting the atomistic philosophy.

Mechanic art; mechanics.

Mechanism; structure.

A maker of machines or machinery; hence, any skilled worker with tools; one who has learned a trade; a workman whose occupation consists in the systematic manipulation and constructive shaping or application of materials; an artificer, artisan, or craftsman.

One who works mechanically; one who follows routine or rule in an occupation requiring careful thought or study: used opprobriously: as, a mere literary mechanic; the picture shows the artist to be only a mechanic.

The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.