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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that builds or repairs ships.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A builder of ships; a ship-carpenter.
  2. 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

  1. n. A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

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  • ““And as shipwright and able assistant,” she laughed back.”

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  • “It was in her blood, of course; that shipwright grandfather of hers was probably the last of a long line of merchant seamen.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “He decided to make repairs underway and took along the shipwright Champdoré, several artisans, a “store of planks,” and a shallop.70”

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  • “The Catholic priest and Protestant pastor lived there, the surgeon Deschamps, and the skilled shipwright Champdoré.”

    Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

  • “Only one man could put it right—the shipwright Champdoré, who “cleverly mended the rudder.””

    Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

  • “In the harbor, shipwright Champdoré repaired the damaged rudder while Champlain surveyed the anchorage and made a chart.”

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  • “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.”

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  • chained_bear The H.M.S. Shipwright was listed as a "transport" captured at Yorktown in 1781. Oct 29, 2007

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