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n. One who is skilled in operating machine tools.

n. One who makes, operates, or repairs machines.

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

n. Archaic A person in charge of stage machinery.

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

n. One skilled in the use of machine tools.

n. A person who operates machinery.

n. A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

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

n. One skilled in the use of machine tools.

n. A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

n. 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.

n. One who tends or works a machine.

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

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

n. 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.

n. a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools

"The workman in the old machine shop was known as a machinist, an apprentice or a helper."

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mechanist    mechanic    mechanician    operator   

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