Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A builder of houses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A builder of houses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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).

Etymologies

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house +‎ wright (“builder”)

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