The species may have been a toolmaker, as its hand allowed for a human-like grip.
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Job-shop machinists can be any combination of toolmaker and production machinist.
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Stanley Works, the largest U.S. toolmaker, cut its 2006 sales forecast Tuesday.
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Louis in 2008 and makes $20 an hour as a toolmaker, maintaining aluminum molds.
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Look out for a new range of super light loppers from Swedish toolmaker Bahco.
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My father was a toolmaker and my mother was a housewife and a carer for her parents.
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Specialty toolmaker SPX Corp., in Muskegon, Mich., made the move last April.
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Smith sought work as a toolmaker, only to find that he'd been blacklisted.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Berner, a former toolmaker, toymaker, factory owner and civic activist, 108 years old.
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Someone skilled in making or repairing tools
Tool and die makers are workers in the manufacturing industry who make jigs, fixtures, dies, molds, machine tools, cutting tools (such as milling cutters and form tools), gauges, and other tools used in manufacturing processes. ...
A skilled machinist who makes, and repairs tools
(Toolmaking) which permits the development of intensive agricultural techniques, such as the use of human power, crop rotation, and irrigation. This has enabled farmers to produce a surplus of food beyond what is necessary for their own subsistence.
[illustrations by Jeroo Roy] (juvenile novel) 1973