Definition of "ballad-maker" [ballad-maker]

• A writer of ballads. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "His purpose: to visit the long-ailing Woody Guthrie, singer, ballad-maker and poet."
• ""Pleasant Historic of Thomas of Reading; or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West," by Thomas Deloney, a famous ballad-maker of the 16th century."
• "The accident that led to this fortunate reconnoitre is not impertinent to our subject: in a time of dearth, which was severely felt in the city, the famous ballad-maker Delone composed a song reflecting on her"