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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Draughtsman" Quotes from Famous Books

... other than those of which another source is specified I have to thank Miss M. O'Shea, on whom has occasionally fallen the difficult task of giving ocular form to the mental visions of one who happens to be no draughtsman. For the rest I make acknowledgment to those books from which the illustrations have been directly derived for my own purposes, without ...

— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker

... the 'ship's draughtsman,' whose duties are somewhat analogous to those of the architect of a house, or the engineer of a railway, or the scientific cutter at a fashionable tailor's: he has to shape the materials out of which the structure is to be built up, or at least he has to shew others how it is to be done. When the ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 - Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 • Various

... young blade," laughed the king. "Knowst not that the wiseacres thought me too dull for teaching till I was past ten years? And what is thy double about? Drawing on wood? How now! An able draughtsman, my young knight?" ...

— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge

... and made Mrs. Bowman feel that she was twenty and beginning life again. She toyed with the pocket-book and complimented Mr. Tucker on his skill as a draughtsman. ...

— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs

... perceived is perceived more and more readily. It follows from this that the mind will be habitually disposed to form the corresponding mental images, and to interpret impressions by help of these. The range of artistic suggestion depends on this. A clever draughtsman can indicate a face by a few rough touches, and this is due to the fact that the spectator's mind is so familiarized, through recurring experience and special interest, with the object, that it is ready ...

— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully

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