glassworker
- noun
- /ˈɡlæsˌwɜrkər/
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vidriero
- During the festival, a talented glassworker demonstrated how to blow glass into intricate shapes.
Examples
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If I managed to find a glassworker who could make quality lenses and the shipping system was anything like it will be 400-600 years in the future, I could even rig up a telescope and get rich the Galileo way (use the telescope to spot ships about to come into port before they can be seen with the eye, invest in them, profit when the ships come into port).
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The skilled glassworker crafted beautiful vases that captured the light perfectly.
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In her studio, she watched as the glassworker shaped molten glass into elegant sculptures.
Synonyms
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8.2
A person who fits and cuts flat glass for windows and doors
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A person who shapes hot glass by blowing air into it, like bottles or vases
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A person who cuts and installs glass for windows and doors
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A person who makes objects like vases or bowls by shaping hot glass by hand
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A person who cuts or engraves glass as a job
A person who makes glass objects by blowing and shaping hot glass
A person who makes or fixes glass for windows and mirrors
How Skilled
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word glassworker comes from glass and worker, so it literally means 'someone who works with glass'. Picture a person at a hot furnace shaping hot, melted glass into vases and ornaments; that is a glassworker who makes glass objects.