Bible Dictionaries
Apprenticeship

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).

(2):

(n.) The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Apprenticeship'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/apprenticeship.html. 1828.