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glass-maker

British  

noun

  1. a person who makes glass or glass objects

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There is a strange tale of how, during the reign of Tiberius, a glass-maker discovered how to make a kind of glass which would not break.

From The Story of Glass by Gray, C.P.

This was equally the case with two other trades;—those of glass-maker and druggist, which brought no contamination upon nobility in Venice.

From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel

And what would be the result of your becoming a glass-maker?

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm

You are a glass-maker yourself, like the rest of us.

From Marietta A Maid of Venice by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Of course every one thought the glass was broken, and that is precisely what the glass-maker wanted them to think.

From The Story of Glass by Gray, C.P.