glassblower
1
6.5
- noun
- /ˈɡlæsˌbloʊər/
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- The artisan glassblower skillfully shaped the molten glass into a beautiful vase.
- master glassblower
- glassblower's shop
- glassblower's wife
And and with all his his background and his leanings and working class family, his people were glassblowers in South Jersey.
- And and with all his his background and his leanings and working class family, his people were glassblowers in South Jersey.
- Showed this to a friend of mine, Lucas Clark, glassblower.
Examples
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Her father, Lin, was a glassblower, and Shang helped him, even though her sight was poor.
Fiction book (2001) -
No such service was available to Bhabha's engineers: in the early years of the Tata Institute, he was forced to locate a promising glassblower and ship him all the way to England for training.
Academic text (1992) -
"Did you catch it earlier when I asked that woman if she had any advice about glassblowers' hands?"
Fiction book (1995) -
"We have seven glassblowers," said a tired male voice.
Fiction book (1995) -
If you ever need any advice about glass, just call the switchboard and ask for a glassblower.
Fiction book (1995) -
A Western scientist who needs a particular piece of, say, laboratory glass will order it from the glassblower and can expect to have it within days.
Academic text (1992) -
And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have some of the rarest examples of the glassblower's art.
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He worked with glassblowers in England and Italy during the 1930s on this project.
Academic text (2005) -
Hilda Murray, a glassblower from Columbia University, and Anthony Jones from NASA, ate and drank the usual stuff in the Green Room.
Fiction book (1995) -
By the early twentieth century, researchers had identified a number of industrial jobs in which workers suffered excessively high rates of respiratory diseases: miners, potters, glassblowers, and stonecutters, for example.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
1
3.5
A person who makes objects like vases or bowls by shaping hot glass by hand
A person who makes glass objects by blowing and shaping hot glass
A person who makes objects like vases from hot glass
How Skilled
1
6.5
8
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Glassblower is made from the simple parts glass and blower, where a 'blower' is someone who 'blows' air. A glassblower shapes hot, melted glass by blowing into it, so the name exactly describes the job.