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n. - An enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.; A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft; Someone who is the first to think of or make something.

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  • Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
  • On being told these terms the artificer stipulated that he should be allowed the use of his horse Svadilfari, and this by the advice of
  • Khur-om, Phoenician artificer, meaning of the name of, 81-u.
  • The advertisement was sandwiched between a reader advertising a doctor of physick and one for an "artificer," the latter being a ladies 'hair-dresser.
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