metalworker
2
3.5
- noun
- /ˈmɛtəlˌwɜrkər/
:
metalúrgico
- The skilled metalworker used a hammer and anvil to create beautiful sculptures.
- metalworkers' unions
- metalworkers and woodworkers
- a male metalworker
Examples
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Siegen was a crowded, smoky little town of iron smiths and metalworkers, a far cry from the grandeur and elegance of Cologne.
Academic text (1999) -
The rabbi-turned-metalworker gestures with his head to a pile of hinges on the floor.
Fiction book (1993) -
Inside were six new finishing tools, made to his own design by a metalworker in the town.
Fiction book (1993) -
I am a skilled metalworker.
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"I have seen the metalworker at his work at the mouth of his furnace."
Blog text (33) -
My father is an importer, not a metalworker.
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He's an actual blacksmith, a really great metalworker.
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In November 1928, 220,000 metalworkers were locked out in the Ruhr region.
Academic text (2000) -
Metalworkers created processional crosses, manual crosses, and chalices and patens for the Eucharistic sacrifice of bread and wine.
Academic text (1998) -
Hartwick College archaeologist David Anthony says the first metalworkers may have been regarded as magicians, turning green pebbles into gleaming knives and axes.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
49
4.8
A person who makes and fixes metal objects by heating and hammering them into shape
25
2.7
A person who joins pieces of metal using heat
18
4.9
A skilled person who operates and repairs machines to make metal parts
4
3.7
A person who shapes hot metal by hammering it
3
8.1
A person who joins metal pieces by hammering small metal pins through them
2
8.8
A person who pours hot metal into molds to make objects
1
3.8
A person who makes or fixes tools as a job
1
7.1
A person who heats and shapes metal by hand, for example making horseshoes
1
8.2
A person who makes and fixes household items like pots and lanterns from thin metal
1
7.7
A person who makes and repairs large metal tanks that hold steam or hot water
1
6.3
A person who shapes wood or metal using a spinning machine
1
4.2
A person who makes or repairs metal items by shaping and joining them
A person who makes or repairs things from iron
A person who makes and shapes things from iron
A person who shapes hot metal with a hammer
A person who smooths metal surfaces by hammering or pressing them
A person who makes or fixes household items from thin metal
A person who makes jewelry and other things from gold
A person who makes jewelry and other items from gold
A person who makes or repairs things made of silver
A person who makes or fixes things from silver
A person who joins metal parts by heating small points to melt them together
A person who joins metal parts by melting a soft metal between them
A person who joins metal parts by placing and hitting small metal pins to hold them together
How Skilled
2
3.5
8
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Metalworker is simply the two words metal and worker, so it means someone who 'works metal'. Think of a blacksmith who heats, hammers, or welds metal to make tools or art — that is a metalworker, a person who shapes or makes things from metal.