handicraftsmanEtymologyFrom handicraft + -s- + -man.nounA practitioner of a handicraft, usually male.“I knowe, that a handie-crafts-man [translating artisan] will ſcarcely looke of his worke, to gaze vpon an ordinarie man: Whereas to ſee a notable great perſon come into a towne, he will leave both worke and ſhop.”