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

The Chews got into the logging business because they’re builders and shipwrights and it was too expensive to bring up timber from Washington.

From Popular-Science

He complained that he had gone to see a great prince, and had found only an industrious shipwright.

From Project Gutenberg

In all ages a great ship is a great wonder, representing for the time the final triumph of the shipwright's art.

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This friend was a foreman shipwright, who, since his return from America, had borne the name of Tom Robson.

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But she knew that was only because, like Peter the Great in a shipwright's yard, he was studying what he wanted to know.

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A Boston shipwright was sent South to select live oak, red cedar, and hard pine.

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