(n): a person who grows or makes or invents things
(n): a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
(n): a worker who has acquired special skills
(n): an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.
(n): a male enlisted person in the armed forces
Fabulous artificer, the hawklike man. You flew. Whereto?
Joyce, Ulysses, 9