"work-master" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: work-masters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} work-master (plural work-masters)
  1. Alternative form of workmaster Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: workmaster
    Sense id: en-work-master-en-noun-r~2yyeLh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1560, Geneva Bible, Wisdom of Solomon 13:1-2,\nSurely all men are vaine by nature, and are ignorant of God, and colde not knowe him that is, by the good things that are sene, nether consider by the workes the work-master. But thei thoght the fyre, or the winde or the swift aire, or the course of the starres, or the raging water, or the lights of heaven to be governours of the worlde, and gods."
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