Word Meanings - PRENTICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An apprentice. Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.

APPRENTICESHIP
1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
APPRENTICEHOOD
Apprenticeship.
APPRENTICE
A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. Blackstone. (more info) of aprentif, fr. apprendare to learn, L. apprendere, equiv. to apprehendere, to take hold of , to
ACCUSER
One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
PRENTICE
An apprentice. Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.
APPRENTICEAGE
Apprenticeship.
PRENTICEHOOD
Apprenticehood. This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.
PLOWMAN; PLOUGHMAN
1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard , a European composite weed , having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.
PRENTICESHIP
Apprenticeship. He served a prenticeship who sets up shop. Pope.