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  1. noun One that constructs or repairs something. Often used in combination: a playwright; a shipwright.

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  • I helped Jean and Arthur and Ah Cheu aboard Bulkeley's boat while the General had a last word on the dark dock with Wain-wright, General Moore and a few others. —  My Fifteen Years with General MacArthur.htm
  • Gen. Jonathan (Skinny) Wain-wright, whom I had last seen on the dock at Corregidor in 1942 when he took over command of our forces there and on Bataan. —  My Fifteen Years with General MacArthur.htm
  • Looks like it's worked out well for them. shaun wright-phillips —  CaughtOffside.com
  • Obama has Jeremiah wright, Tony Rezko, John Edwards, Bill the Adulterer Clinton, and a host of many cheaters, swindlers, racists, and liars endorsing him. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • The participant passcode for the call is "wright." —  GuruFocus Updates
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  1. Middle English, from Old English wryhta; see werg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wrighte, wrihte, wriʒte, wruhte, wurhte, write, from Anglo-Saxon wyrhta (= Old Saxon wurhtio = Old High German wurhto), a worker, wright, from Anglo-Saxon wyrht, gewyrht (= Old Saxon wurht = Old High German wuruht, wuraht, a work, deed), from wyrcan, etc., work: see work.
 

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