machinist

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One who is skilled in operating machine tools.

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One who makes, operates, or repairs machines.

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A warrant officer who assists the engineering officer in the engine room of a naval vessel.

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A constructor of machines and engines, or one versed in the principles of machines; in a general sense, one who invents or constructs mechanical devices of any kind.

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One who tends or works a machine.

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In the rating of the United States navy, an engine-room artificer or attendant.

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In United States politics, an adherent of the machine, or a supporter of its methods.

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In the history of art, one of those Italian painters of about the seventeenth century (a period of artistic decline) who worked mechanically or according to rigid rules.

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A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

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One skilled in the use of machine tools.