journeyman - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • become: Once an apprenticeship was over, the young person now became a journeyman.
  • employ: For example, we tried to distinguish masters, those employing others, from employed journeyman.

Adjective modifier

  • competent: Slightly more than a competent journeyman I would say.
  • good: He was swift and clean as a good journeyman.

Modifies a noun

  • miller: Some millers worked on their own and others employed a son or a journeyman miller to assist them.
  • weaver: The wages were never high enough to enable the journeyman weaver to tide over periods of unemployment.
  • baker: Also living in the house are five journeyman bakers ( ranging in age from 15 to 24 ) and a female general servant.
  • tailor: In 1881 a journeyman tailor called Roger Simmons lived over No. 70 with his wife, three children, and niece.
  • printer: When Ingram finished his training he moved to London where he worked as a journeyman printer.
  • shoemaker: There the chair was taken by David Morgan, a journeyman shoemaker.

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