技ぎ手しゅ

noun

assistant engineer; operator

Historical or occupational term for a technical assistant or telegraph operator; now largely obsolete outside historical contexts.

• 明めい治じ時じ代だい、彼かれは鉄てつ道どうの技ぎ手しゅとして働はたらいていた。

  In the Meiji period, he worked as an assistant engineer for the railway.

• 技ぎ手しゅという役やく職しょくは、現げん在ざいではほとんど使つかわれていない。

  The position of 技手 is hardly used today.