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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jeweler

Jeweler \Jew"el*er\ (j[=u]"[e^]l*l[~e]r or j[udd]"[e^]l*l[~e]r), n. [Cf. F. joaillier.] One who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments. [Written also jeweller.]

Jeweler's gold. See under Gold.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jeweler

also jeweller, late 14c. (mid-14c. as a surname, Alice la Jueler), from Anglo-French jueler, from Old French juelier (Modern French joaillier), from joel (see jewel).

Wiktionary
jeweler

n. A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry.

WordNet
jeweler
  1. n. someone who makes jewelry [syn: jewelry maker, jeweller]

  2. someone in the business of selling jewelry [syn: jeweller]

Usage examples of "jeweler".

An old jeweler who lodged next door, and for whose honesty my landlady answered, told me it was worth a hundred and fifty guineas, and asked me to let him have it if I had no better offer.

Back in the strong room, in the presence of Raymond Dagwood and three policemen, the elderly jeweler read forth the statements that The Shadow had left.

In a single day, I was scheduled to meet with the jeweler about the setting for the DeFrancesco Diamond, attend the Folk Musician of the Year ceremonies with my cousin, my gastroenterologist, and then visit with the royal family.

To offset that, Trebe had sent another Kauger message, ordering Monte to a final job, the murder of Geiger, the jeweler.

There were swordsmiths, pottery-makers, armorers, jewelers, leatherworkers, astrologers, bootmakers, glassblowers, and dozens of other trades mentioned, as well as some that had no word for them in Polish.

Fifth Avenue shop of Julius Hankey, the most exclusive jeweler in New York.

A jeweler by profession, he wore two pendant necklaces over a nubby sweater, matching pajamalike trousers and nubuck clogs.

For a great portion of the debts had been incurred for some diamond ear-rings which the queen herself did not wish for, and had only bought to gratify Madame de Polignac, who had promised her custom to the jeweler who had them for sale.

All horses always did, like jewelry, which was why auctioneers and jewelers spent happily on electricity.

Next witness for the State: John Beckwith, jeweler a pale, obviously frightened man of sixty, who peered about the crowded courtroom as if his eyesight were bad.

It seemed to say that the glittering shops of the jewelers, the milliners, the confectioners, the florists, the picture-dealers, the furriers, the makers of rare and costly antiquities, retail traders in luxuries of life, were beneath the notice of a house that had its foundations in the high finance, and was built literally and figuratively in the shadow of St.

At once Madoc had set about building a fleet of ships and recruiting strong and able men and women to colonize larghal: carpenters and masons, weavers, farmers, shepherds, fishermen and hunters, ironsmiths, potters, charcoal burners, kiln makers, tanners and cobblers, glassblowers, jewelers and armorers, priests and scribes.

Jewelers, potters, woodcarvers, and people selling prints or tie-dyed T-shirts lined the street.

She was without any adornment, save the combs, and Morgan regretted leaving the jewelers when they had first reached Sacramento.

Despite their leader's promises of brotherhood, they were breaking down the doors of perfume shops, clothiers and jewelers, and taking what they thought valuable.