Definition of "handicraftsmen" [handicraftsmen]

• Plural form of handicraftsman. (noun)

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• "But in the old days the handicraftsmen were the marrow of the land."
• "Before that, even if the rhythms of agricultural and village life included seasonal oscillations between periods of intense labor and downtime, farmers and handicraftsmen generally retained the ability to sustain their families."
• "The farmers, handicraftsmen, fishermen, and various tradespeople swept into the new textile or shoe factories, or the farm women set to work out in the countryside spinning and weaving for merchant capitalists still held onto some semblance of their old ways of life."