Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that makes or engraves metal dies for stamping or shaping.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An engraver of dies for stamping or embossing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
engraver ofdies forstamping coins ,medals , etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes dies
- noun someone who makes dies
Etymologies
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die + sinker
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Examples
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The diesinker had to translate a drawing – it might be for a candlestick in the form of a Corinthian column – into three dimensions, in reverse, chiseling it into hard steel and then smoothing it with emery cloth.
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