(historical) A person employed to find crews for ships, sometimes by illicit practices such as shanghaiing.

plural of boarding-master

Obsolete form of masterpiece.

(publishing, printing) The copy that serves as the controlling (master) version among a set of copies (as, for example, the master proof to which edits from the authors' proofs are transferred, or an analogous master manuscript with transferred edits).

plural of master copy

(film) A film recording of an entire dramatized scene, from start to finish, from a camera angle that keeps all the players in view.

plural of master shot

plural of Master of the Rolls

The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.

Synonym of Captain Obvious