toolmaker
nounEtymology From tool + maker.
1
One who makes a tool.
- Prehistoric toolmakers overlooked some knapping errors (excluding nonirreparable breakage) because they ignored certain types of errors in favor of recognizing a consistent and meaningful whole of the tool.2011, Wm Jack Hranicky, Prehistoric Projectile Points Found Along the Atlantic Coastal Plain, page 227:
2
A skilled machinist who makes and repairs tools.
- Related terms
- diemaker, diemaking, tool and die, toolmaking