Noun : an apprentice to a plumber.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : He apprenticed for 14 years under a master silversmith.    From Dictionary.com. 

Hemingway was "apprenticed" as a cub reporter, which is how newspapers used to train journalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Democratic Daily] Reference

She is 'apprenticed', a name for temporary slavery, and is highly spoken of as a servant, as the Caffres always are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from the Cape] Reference

In view of the facts that these More children -- and perhaps others -- were "apprenticed" or "bound" to the Pilgrims.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference

At 14, he apprenticed to the owner of a textile mill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economics Of The Rat Race] Reference

She grew up near London, and apprenticed on British TV.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Faces Of 1996] Reference

When he was fourteen, he was apprenticed to a physician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

With this as a guide his guardian early apprenticed him to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference

When I was fifteen years old he apprenticed me to a florist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Young Jean Jacques was at length apprenticed to an engraver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

He was apprenticed at an early age to the printing-business.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

In his sixteenth year he apprenticed himself to a stone-mason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

England, entered upon his duties as an apprenticed writer in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Madras] Reference

In 1936 I was apprenticed to a leather-goods shop in Vienna, Austria.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL & CORRECTION] Reference

All circus people in those days were apprenticed, all learned their business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Receiving a common school education, he was apprenticed to a handloom weaver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

At age 10 or 12 in other eras, those kids would have been apprenticed already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mothering As A Spectator Sport] Reference

After a short time it was decided that Hans was to be apprenticed to a tailor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

He apprenticed himself to a blacksmith, learned the trade and came to Columbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

He first wrote verses while apprenticed to a mechanic in a neighbouring parish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

He was then apprenticed to the photographer Yousuf Karsh as an unpaid assistant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Leonard obituary] Reference

Davy Fiske was a weaver, and soon after the fox hunt I was apprenticed to Robert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

He apprenticed with the late Lee Atwater, the Baby Boomer Bad Boy of the new GOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Lives: The Global War For Hearts And Minds] Reference

I apprenticed myself as a sales-girl in New York's most gigantic department store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

He was taught drawing by his father, and in 1750 was apprenticed to a wood-carver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

After leaving school, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon, and in 1770 he went to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

At that time he was apprenticed to learn the trade o 'a shoemaker, in a distant town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories and Sketches] Reference

He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and obtained the rudiments of education in the Asbury.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

He returned to his native city and apprenticed himself to the firm of Burtis & Woodward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

When yet a mere child he was apprenticed to a farmer, whom he was to serve until of age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

At 19, he apprenticed for a few months to a portrait lithographer, but boredom drove him out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Mightier Than The Pen] Reference

At fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to a carpenter, who gave him only board and clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

He was educated at a national school, and, on leaving, was apprenticed to an ironmonger at Belfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

They might have been paired with a tutor, apprenticed to a master or put to work in the family store.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Boys] Reference

It used to be that children formally or informally apprenticed themselves to adults in the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jaime Escalante, Alfie Kohn, John Taylor Gatto, Frank Smith (part 2)] Reference

I apprenticed with someone who's been organizing for a very long time before going out on my own about two and a half years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [10 Questions for . . . Katherine Steiger, Professional Organizer] Reference

Born in 1836, Homer apprenticed at 19 to a Boston lithographer and, four years later, left to seek his fortune as an artist in New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Where The Heart Is] Reference

He apprenticed with Nixon, traveling with him as an aide-de-camp and speechwriter during the Old Man's arduous return to power in the '60s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extreme Measures] Reference