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noun

Draughtsman n. (pl. draughtsmen)

One who draws pleadings or other writings.

One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.

A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.

One who drinks drams; a tippler. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Draughtsman'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Draughtsman" Quotes from Famous Books

... was still, like the corrector of Italian consuls, 'a great child in everything but information.' At the house of Colonel Cleather, he might be seen with a family of children; and with these, there was no word of the Greek orders; with these Fleeming was only an uproarious boy and an entertaining draughtsman; so that his coming was the signal for the young people to troop into the playroom, where sometimes the roof rang with romping, and sometimes they gathered quietly about him as he ...

— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson

... cheap and crooked shoes, and her short and sleazy skirt, with the banner tugging, tugging in the breeze. Fanny Brandeis had done her with that economy of line, and absence of sentimentality which is the test separating the artist from the draughtsman. ...

— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber

... the success of the Paris "Charivari" had attracted the attention of Mr. Ebenezer Landells, wood-engraver, draughtsman, and newspaper projector. He had been a favourite pupil of the great Bewick himself, and had come up to London, where he soon made his mark as John Jackson's and Harvey's chief lieutenant and obtained an entrance into literary and artistic ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... As a rule, such a practice is not to be recommended to any one who wishes to draw with even moderate accuracy; constant study of the actual object, and frequent comparison by glancing from object to copy, are absolutely necessary for forming a correct draughtsman. But Millet knew his own way best; and how wonderfully minute and painstaking must his survey have been when it enabled him to reproduce the picture of a person afterwards in every ...

— Biographies of Working Men • Grant Allen

... longitudinal turning axis (upon which the Aeroplane rolls sideways), or the side upon which there is an excess will get blown over by the gusts. It strikes me that my future isn't very promising, and about my only chance is when the Junior Draughtsman makes a mistake, as he did the other day. And just think of it, they call him a Designer now that he's got a job at the Factory! What did he do? Why, he calculated the weights wrong and got the Centre of Gravity ...

— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

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