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mechanician

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Definition:
1. a machine designer and/or builder
2. a mechanic
3. a machinist
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In fact, this hunchback courted the dyer's wife, who from her nature, caring little for badly built people, laughed to scorn the request of the mechanician, and joked him about the springs, engines, and spools of which his shop was full.

Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories, Volume 1
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"I beg your pardon," she said to the German mechanician; "I want a few words with my husband."

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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