Lexic.us

Definition of Shop mechanic

1. Noun. A craftsman skilled in operating machine tools.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shop Mechanic

Literary usage of Shop mechanic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Success in the Small Shop by John Herbert Van Deventer (1918)
"An idea of how this could be effected had come to him while reading the efficiency literature: "The average shop mechanic has no idea of the length of time ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Railway, Bridge and (1898)
"Then the party who has a shop mechanic in mind could not taunt the advocate of a special collegiate course with the query, What good is calculus, ..."

3. Opportunity Monograph: Vocational Rehabilitation Series, No. 1-40. November by United States Division of Vocational Education (1918)
"Foreman car builder, car carpenter, railway shop mechanic. Master mariner, deck officer, first officer. Quarry boss, machine shop foreman in quarry. ..."

4. Automobile Repairing Made Easy, Shop Methods, Equipment, Processes: A by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1918)
"... of a service station will vary from a very simple tool outfit of the small shop mechanic to the more expensive in- ..."

5. Shop Sketching by Joseph William Woolley, Roy Brodhead Meredith (1913)
"Aside from the ability which he acquires to read drawings, the chief use that the shop mechanic has for a knowledge of drawing is in making occasional ..."

6. The Horseless Age (1900)
"The inventor and the shop mechanic are honored and indispensable, and the engineer, preferring to deal with known quantities, has no wish to invade their ..."

7. Automobile Repairing Made Easy, Shop Methods, Equipment, Processes: A by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"The equipment of a service station will vary from a very simple tool outfit of the small shop mechanic to the more expensive installation found in ..."

8. Shop Mathematics by John Michael Christman (1922)
"In the preparation of this book the author has had in a threefold purpose: First, to furnish the apprentice, shop mechanic, and draftsman with a complete ..."

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