Word Finder - workman

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A man who labours for wages.

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An artisan or craftsman.

The legend of Wayland probably had its home in the north, where he and his brother Egil l 2 were the types of the skilled workman, but there are abundant local traditions of the wonderful smith in Westphalia and in southern England.

Again, in direct-fired furnaces there are commonly seven or eight rows of retorts, one above another, so that to serve the upper rows the workman must stand upon a table, where he is exposed to the full heat of the furnace and requires a helper to wait upon him.

The rate of wages is determined by a "dispute" or struggle of opposite interests between the employer and the workman.

For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!

The technical difference between pressed and moulded glass is that moulded glass-ware has taken its form from a mould under the pressure of a workman's breath, or of compressed air, whereas pressed glass-ware has taken its form from a mould under the pressure of a plunger.

A fourth is beating the arm of an unfinished figure, the head of which lies at the workman's feet.

These and kindred difficulties make each new shape or size a new problem, and in particular they require that for each and every individual casting a new sand or clay mould shall be made with care by a skilled workman.

It has medieval buildings of some interest, but is mainly remarkable for its large dynamite factory, employing over Soo workman.

This process, which takes several weeks, is a very delicate one, and requires much skill on the part of the workman.

To this date belong Millet's "Golden Age," "Bird Nesters," "Young Girl and Lamb," and "Bathers"; but to the "Bathers" (Louvre) succeeded "The Mother Asking Alms," "The Workman's Monday," and "The Winnower."

Even if maggaba does denote the ordinary workman's hammer, and not the great smith's hammer which would more fitly symbolize the impetuosity of Judas, this is not a fatal objection.

On that day, a workman was engaged in cutting and grinding the aft top-deck guard rails and stanchions of the Northern Challenger.

Worker killed A workman was killed at a construction site.

He also asked the lady's normal gardener for a business card, which was handed over to the bogus workman.

This is performed by a skillful workman, who places himself opposite a gas-lamp, or where there is a great light.

Ward, a fellow workman, held him up to the fresh air supply for three hours, thus saving his life.

The rich publisher may treat the poor poet better or worse than the old master workman treated the old apprentice.

Into the square axial hole fits the square end of a hooked iron bar which projects several yards beyond the mouth of the furnace; by means of this bar a workman moves the fireclay cylinder about in the glass with a steady circular sweep. Although the weight of the iron bar is carried by a support, such as an overhead chain or a swivel roller, this operation is very laborious and trying, more especially during the earlier stages when the heat radiated from the open mouth of the crucible is intense.

Asinius Pollio sneered at his Patavinity, and the emperor Caligula denounced him as verbose, but with these exceptions the opinion of antiquity was unanimous in pronouncing him a consummate literary workman.

The workman sits on a wooden stand, with a brass cup before him, which he lines with the leaves of poppy petals before-mentioned until the thickness of half an inch is reached, a few being allowed to hang over the cup; the leaves are agglutinated by means of " lewa," a pasty fluid which consists of a mixture of inferior opium, 8% of " pussewah " and the " dhoe " or washings of the vessels that have contained opium, and the whole is made of such consistence that 100 grains evaporated to dryness over a water-bath leave 53 grains of solid residue.

Pale, frightened people were doing something around the workman.

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Can you expect to have harder duties done for about half a common workman 's wages.

He was a workman employed by Father Smith, whose daughter he married in 1708.

Worker Killed A workman was killed at a construction site.

Fewer than 100 years later, in 1223, St. Francis of Assisi asked a workman named Giovanni Vellita to construct a nativity scene for him in the town of Greccio.

Workman's compensation (workman's comp) insurance programs exist to protect employees who have been injured on the job or who have incurred work-related injuries.

That being said, Workman's comp can become a nightmare for small business owners because it's a complicated state mandated program.

Workman's comp is generally an expensive no-fault insurance that carries heavy penalties issued against businesses who do not carry the insurance.

Employer's workman's comp insurance policies are available from commercial insurance companies, at regular or predetermined excessive risk policies obtained through assigned-risk programs.

In most states employers are prevented from terminating an employee for simply reporting a workplace injury, or for filing a workman's comp claim.

The law prevents workers to falsely filing workman's comp benefit claims.

If you are a contractor and hire employees to help you complete a job, you will also need to obtain workman's compensation insurance.

The hollow bulb is worked into the shape it is intended to assume, partly by blowing, partly by gravitation, and partly by the workman's tool.

For the future avoidance of any such scenes a cunning workman of Cornwall offered to make a table which should seat 1600 knights and more, and at which all should be equal.

In 1742 a workman named Thomas Bolsover was mending the handle of a knife made of silver and copper, when, accidentally overheating it, he caused the metals to fuse and flow, and found that as a consequence the silver adhered to the copper as a thin coating.

They must therefore have been marked by a workman using a cubit of 25.13.

The former is exemplified in the labour of the manufacturing workman, the latter in that of the menial servant.

In 1902 he gave energetic support to the miners of Carmaux who went out on strike in consequence of the dismissal of a socialist workman, Calvignac; and in the next year he was re-elected to the chamber as deputy for Albi.

But in that year Lombe of Derby, disguised as a common workman, and obtaining entrance as such into one of the Italian throwing mills, made drawings of the machinery used for this process.

But a more serious volume was Time and Tide (1867), a series of twenty-five letters to a workman of Sunderland, upon various points in the Ruskinian Utopia.

As it is impossible to use an ordinary wheelbarrow in these narrow pathways, the workman carries a specially made wicker basket called a " hotte " on his shoulders by means of two straps.

As the iron oxide is stirred into the molten metal laboriously by the workman or "puddler " with his hook or "rabble," it oxidizes the silicon to silica and the phosphorus to phosphoric acid, and unites with both these products, forming with them a basic iron silicate rich in phosphorus, called " puddling " or " tap cinder."

The essential difficulty has been that none of them could subdivide the rapidly solidifying charge into the small balls which the workman dexterously forms by hand, and that if the charge is not thus subdivided but drawn as a single ball, the cinder cannot be squeezed out of it thoroughly enough.

In 1900 laws were passed regulating the contract of labour, placing the workman on a footing of perfect equality with his employer, assuring the married woman free control of her savings, and organizing a system of old-age pensions.

The latter were kept down by numerous edicts, tending to restrict to certain privileged families the rank of master workman in the gilds.

In the mosque at Medina he was stabbed by a Kufan workman and died in November 644.

The originals and the engraver's proofs are of great assistance to the workman in bringing out the details of an illustration when he is preparing it for printing.

His songs, his satires, his occasional pieces, without displaying any real originality, show Dalin's tact and skill as a workman with the pen.

A thoroughly trustworthy and experienced workman should be selected to lay the pipes, with instructions to set no pipes until he is satisfied that the depth of the drains and level of the bottoms are correct.