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builder

/ˈbɪl.dɚ/ noun B1
  1. One who builds or constructs things.
  2. Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
  3. Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of (often automated) output.

Plural builders

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They will all disappear, like the fabrics children build with cards, and which fall, one by one, under the breath of their builder, even if there are two hundred of them.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 940 · C1
“There’s the advantage of being a builder,” said Holmes, as we came out.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 63 · C1
The Manor House, with its many gables and its small diamond-paned windows, was still much as the builder had left it in the early seventeenth century.
The Valley of Fear, p. 22 · C1
For example, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated with the outside air!”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 57 · B2

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