shipwright

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You enlist him as one of your companions and a shipwright should be a very useful member of your crew.

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  1. noun One that builds or repairs ships.

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  • The list was short, but discouraging: a shipwright, a real estate office, and a bakery. —  Kat Richardson - Greywalker 1 - Greywalker (v2.0)
  • At noon to the 'Change, and so home to dinner, and then down by water to Deptford, where coming too soon, I spent an houre in looking round the yarde, and putting Mr. Shish Jonas Shish, master-shipwright at Deptford. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jun/Jul 1664
  • Perhaps his occupation may have had something to do with this; for he was apprenticed to a shipwright, and delighted in his work. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
  • He pondered it as he went in an indignant bewilderment; it was strange that others should find him so different when he knew himself to be the same as ever The Scottish foreman-shipwright in the yard office looked up from his standing-desk, lifting, to the light of the open door a red monkey-face comically fringed with coppery whiskers, and stared at him ferociously with little stone-blue eyes. —  Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories
  • You will remember his labouring as a shipwright in England not many years since, to gain a knowledge of ship-building He is now constructing a large fleet, and he is anxious to secure the services of a number of active and intelligent officers like yourself. —  John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
 

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  1. from Middle English schipwriʒt, schypwryte, from Anglo-Saxon scipwyrhta, from scip, ship, + wyrhta, wright: see ship and wright.
 

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