meaning of artificer
1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
2. One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
3. A cunning or artful fellow.
4. A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc. ; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc. , in a military laboratory.
5. an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.
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