Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that builds or repairs ships.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A builder of ships; a ship-carpenter.
- n. A local English name of the spotted ling: so called because it has “a resemblance to the spilt pitch on the clothes of these mechanics.”
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
Etymologies
- ship + wright (“builder”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You enlist him as one of your companions and a shipwright should be a very useful member of your crew.”
““And as shipwright and able assistant,” she laughed back.”
“It was in her blood, of course; that shipwright grandfather of hers was probably the last of a long line of merchant seamen.”
“They know me at the Running Hart, and they gave me to wait at table a boy that I know something of, whose uncle is a shipwright in my yard.”
“If he, for instance, had a shipwright build him a ship for the price of 2 ounces of gold, he might write out a note which would say, "Pay Mr. Shipwright 2 ounces of gold out of my gold on deposit at Mr. Goldsmiths's storeroom.”
“He decided to make repairs underway and took along the shipwright Champdoré, several artisans, a “store of planks,” and a shallop.70”
“The Catholic priest and Protestant pastor lived there, the surgeon Deschamps, and the skilled shipwright Champdoré.”
“Only one man could put it right—the shipwright Champdoré, who “cleverly mended the rudder.””
“In the harbor, shipwright Champdoré repaired the damaged rudder while Champlain surveyed the anchorage and made a chart.”
“These men appeared in the records of many voyages to America.26 Others with professional expertise included Pierre Angibault, sieur de Champdoré, a skilled shipwright and amateur pilot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shipwright’.
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ship phrases /words
how ship is used
great ship, king's ship, ship-accounts, ship-agent, ship-based, ship-beak, ship-bearer, ship-bearing, ship-beer, ship-bell, ship-beset, ship biscuit and 229 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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Know Your Wrights
These are your wrights.
wainwright, playwright, shipwright, wright, wrights, cartwright, wheelwright, millwright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rufus Wainwright, Richard Wright, anchorites and 20 more...
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A LIST of the Vessels taken or destro...
shallops, matthews, ennendert, arno, susanna, north-britain, cochran, galleys, schooners, sloops, spitfire, rambler and 35 more...
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Smith is the Name
perfumer, cobbler, pewterer, tailor, saddler, locksmith, goldsmith, glazier, brazier, mangonnier, romainier, passementier and 77 more...
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The Miller's Tale
cheesemonger, fishmonger, mercer, milliner, cobbler, sailor, cooper, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, jewler and 34 more...
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chained_bear The H.M.S. Shipwright was listed as a "transport" captured at Yorktown in 1781. Oct 29, 2007