subs. (trade).—A cabinet-maker who works on his own account, selling his manufacture to the dealers direct.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, ii., p. 376. These trading operatives are known by different names in different trades. In the shoe trade, for instance, they are called ‘chamber-masters,’ in the cabinet trade GARRET-MASTERS, and in the cooper’s trade the name for them is ‘small trading-masters.’
