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noun a person who makes things
noun a machine tool for shaping metal or wood
originFrom Middle English schapere, alteration (perhaps due to Old Norse skaperi, skapari) of Old English sċyppend, sċieppend (“shaper; maker; creator”), equivalent to shape + -er. Cognate with Dutch schepper, German Schöpfer, Danish skaber, Swedish skapare, Icelandic skapari.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0