Both Uses of
apprentice
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Well, you might be apprenticed to some business,—a chemist's and druggist's perhaps; your Latin might come in a bit there——" Tom was going to speak, but Mr. Deane put up his hand and said: "Stop!†
Chpt 3.5
- Not that Tom was moulded on the spoony type of the Industrious Apprentice; he had a very strong appetite for pleasure,—would have liked to be a Tamer of horses and to make a distinguished figure in all neighboring eyes, dispensing treats and benefits to others with well-judged liberality, and being pronounced one of the finest young fellows of those parts; nay, he determined to achieve these things sooner or later; but his practical shrewdness told him that the means no such achievements could only lie for him in present abstinence and self-denial; there were certain milestones to be passed, and one of the first was the payment of his father's debts.†
Chpt 5.2 *
Definition:
person who learns a trade or skill through hands-on experience under a skilled worker; or (as a verb) performance of that kind of work