viseman

A first-class viseman ought to be able to file up anything of this kind without much reference to the square; […] It is a well-known fact that first-class visemen are at a premium, and the only reason I can assign for it is that so many youths are now brought up to simply watch machinery at work and grind tools, without any idea of ever using their hands at all; […]

In fact, we might divide the fitting-shop hands into two other classes: one, the bench-hand pure and simple — what the Scotch call a viseman — the other corresponding more closely to what used to be called a millwright, a term not much used nowadays.