All 9 Uses

apprentice
in
The Hiding Place
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And there in the center of the room was my bench, and next to mine Hans the apprentice's, and against the wall old Christoffels'.†
p. 19.3 *
At 7:45 Hans, the apprentice, arrived and at 8:00 Toos, our saleslady-bookkeeper.†
p. 20.8
There were only two employees in the watch shop in 1898, the clock man and Father's young apprentice-errand boy.†
p. 39.4
Father would be giving last-minute instructions to the apprentice.†
p. 40.4
Father, his jeweler's glass in his eye, was bent over the shoulder of the newest apprentice, deftly selecting an infinitesimal part from the array before them on the workbench.†
p. 54.3
Dr. van Veen, for whom the apprentice had gone running, could do no more than we.†
p. 63.3
So when this tall good-looking young man appeared with apprentice papers from a good firm in Berlin, Father hired him without hesitation.†
p. 74.6
First there was Jop, our current apprentice, whose daily trip from his parents' home in the suburbs had twice nearly ended in seizure for the factory transport.†
p. 119.3
As a matter of fact, it came first to Jop, the seventeen-year-old apprentice who had sought a safe home at the Beje.†
p. 137.8

Definitions:

(1) (apprentice)
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
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)