shipwright

[ ship-rahyt ]

noun

, Shipbuilding.

1. a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels.

shipwright

/ ˈʃɪpˌraɪt /

noun

1. an artisan skilled in one or more of the tasks required to build vessels

Word History and Origins

Origin of shipwright¹

before 1100; Middle English; Old English scipwyrhta. See ship ¹, wright

Example Sentences

In a flashback, we see a young Franky literally try to stop a train with his bare hands to rescue Tom, the wrongly arrested shipwright who took him in as an orphan.

From Los Angeles Times

The crew is mostly women, which is a first for sailor and shipwright Allie Gretzinger.

From Seattle Times

The speakers this year are Ginny Wilson, shipwright and custom woodworker; Lara Edgeland, artist, scientist and tall-ship sailor; Susan Brittain, transgender sailor and captain; Meegan Corcoran, marine biologist; and Savannah Smith and Ebony Welborn, co-founders of the Seattle environmental advocacy group Sea Potential.

From Seattle Times

The next day, Shipwright Studios, a co-development services studio, tweeted that they would be canceling any contracts they had with Tripwire.

From The Verge

“We cannot in good conscience continue to work with Tripwire under the current leadership structure,” Shipwright Studios wrote a mere 24 hours after Gibson’s tweet.

From The Verge