Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A builder of houses.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A builder of houses.
Etymologies
- house + wright (“builder”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“His father, Onesiphorous Tileston, also a housewright and a man of wealth, was captain of the”
“A housewright, was born in Boston, in 1745, and died in 1806.”
“Was a housewright, on Foster's wharf, in 1789, and at 5 Bennet Street, in 1796.”
“A housewright, residing on Nassau (now Tremont) Street, died in August,”
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