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machinist

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machinist
1. a person who operates machines to cut or process materials
2. a maker or repairer of machines


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One of the many characters of the village was the machinist who had his shop under our printing-office when we first brought our newspaper to the place, and who was just then a machinist because he was tired of being many other things, and had not yet made up his mind what he should be next.
Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.
George had found constant occupation in the shop of a worthy machinist, where he had been earning a competent support for his family, which, in the mean time, had been increased by the addition of another daughter.
 
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