Under-workman

(UNDER-¹ 6 a.)

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1608. Willet, Hexapla Exod., 724. The chiefe workeman doth the principall worke himselfe, and the other by his ministers and vnderworkemen.

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1651. C. Cartwright, Cert. Relig., I. 142. As an Architect, or the like chiefe workman, doth … appoint under-workmen where they shall imploy themselves.

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1708. Swift, Sent. Ch. Eng. Man, Wks. 1755, II. I. 78. Under-workmen, who are expert enough at making a single wheel in a clock, but are utterly ignorant how to adjust the several parts.

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1771. Luckombe, Hist. Print., 8. An Under-workman in the Printing-House at Harlem.

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