abbreviation for engraver; a person who cuts designs or text into a surface such as metal, wood, or stone.
This is a shortened abbreviation of engraver (from en- plus grave, meaning to carve), using the first three letters and the 'r' to indicate the agent noun. Such abbreviations were common in formal documentation and trade records.
Finding 'engr' in old documents is like discovering professional shorthand—craftspeople and merchants developed these abbreviations for common titles and occupations, and they tell us something about what jobs were common and important enough to abbreviate.
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