All 3 Uses of
apprentice
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'We must try and get you apprenticed at some boarding-school,' said Ralph.†
Chpt 3
- …on as a page in white silk hose, to stand with one leg bent, and contemplate the audience, or to go in and out after Mr Crummles in stately tragedy—twisting up the ringlets of the beautiful Miss Bravassa, who had once had her likeness taken 'in character' by an engraver's apprentice, whereof impressions were hung up for sale in the pastry-cook's window, and the greengrocer's, and at the circulating library, and the box-office, whenever the announce bills came out for her annual night.†
Chpt 23 *
- Not that we ever quarrelled, but he was apprenticed down in the country, and he got married there; and new ties and affections springing up about him, he forgot a poor little woman like me, as it was very reasonable he should, you know.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(apprentice) one who works for an expert to learn a trade; or (as a verb) performance of that kind of work