Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that builds and repairs wagons.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A wagon-maker: same as wagonwright.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as wagonwright.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a wagon maker
Examples
“Thu 10/15/09 7: 28 PM its snow patrol and martha wainwright”
“In story terms wheels could simply be utilitarian, rugged things put there by the wainwright because it was known that the majestic wheelhouse would be completely overshadowing them.”
“Monroe bought them both without a moment of haggle, counting out money from his wallet into the yellowy and callused hand of the wainwright.”
“I think I would have resisted temptation anyhow-but I had with me in the light wagon we drove from Top Dollar, the hardware for three, then I spent that extra hardware on other, things, bartering it through the wainwright.”
“Dudley, conversing, observing too, Victor followed the trips and twists of a rill, that was lured a little further down through scoops, ducts, and scaffolded channels to serve a wainwright.”
“Walking beside young Dudley, conversing, observing too, Victor followed the trips and twists of a rill, that was lured a little further down through scoops, ducts, and scaffolded channels to serve a wainwright.”
“Notify me of followup comments via e-mail colleen wainwright:: you may reuse posts ONLY in accordance with the”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wainwright’.
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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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difficult words
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the most beautiful
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Good Words
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O! Timballo
for the same
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Defunct professions
Economists like to cite "buggy whip maker" as an example of a profession whose career prospects were dimmed, and ultimately quenched, by the inexorable march of technological progress. This is a li...
buggy whip maker, guillemot egg col..., bog iron hunter, nettle string maker, fuller, purple maker, tanner, gut girl, reddleman, wont catcher, navvy, ratcatcher and 239 more...
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Archaic Occupations
Some of these professions still exist today but the word for them has changed; some (mason or boatswain, for example), are still in use but are included for their rich historical associations. Som...
yeoman, summoner, chandler, ostler, carter, chapman, slaver, mason, cordwainer, cooper, glazier, dyer and 187 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 156 more...
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nfk9595's Words
magnetohydrodynamics, bovine, epistle, gargantuan, kerfuffle, verbiage, morose, coup de main, elan, achtung, uber, verboten and 497 more...
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W is for Wellies
My W Words
woolworth, wonky, watusi, wordpunk, whistle punk, wretch, with bells on, walkie-talkie, wocka wocka, wench, wordsmith, wanderlust and 55 more...
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I made this!
People who make stuff.
milliner, jeweler, silversmith, cobbler, draper, goldsmith, locksmith, carpenter, joiner, baker, stonemason, wheelwright and 43 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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Funky Occupations
cambist, wainwright, amanuensis, anacoluthon, tonsorial, armamentarium, famulus, amah, editrix, buildress, ocularist, selenologist and 1 more...
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words to learn
ecclesiarch, decennium, decennary, galactosemia, tautogeneity, quadrature, vellum, wainwright, addax, quadrumane, omnisentient, glyphography and 75 more...
Tweets
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yarb "The wagon can't be fixed," said the pig.
"Not by the world's best wainwrights," said Ebenezer.
- William Steig, Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride Sep 29, 2008