Definition of "prentice" [pren•tice]

• Archaic An apprentice. (noun)

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• "Later, as soon as I was relieved, I hurried down to the 'prentice's berth."
• ""Not 'again,' Mr. Levy; and my 'prentice' hand, if you don't mind.""
• "Keeping these latter words to himself, and returning his daughter's nod, he was passing into the workshop, with the smile she had awakened still beaming on his face, when he just caught sight of his 'prentice's brown paper cap ducking down to avoid observation, and shrinking from the window back to its former place, which the wearer no sooner reached than he began to hammer lustily."