Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shipwright; a carpenter who works at ship-building.
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Examples
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He was a ship-carpenter by trade and a cooper for The Mayflower, which was usually docked at Southampton.
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The Baton Rogue is also on the east side of the M.ssisippi, and distant twenty-six leagues from New Orleans: it was formerly the grant of M. Artaguette d'Iron: it is there we see the famouse cypress-tree of which a ship-carpenter offered to make two pettyaugres, one of sixteen, the other of fourteen tons.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
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He then apprenticed himself to a ship-carpenter for four years, taking a trip down the coast now and then, and watching his chance for the next move.
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Child remarks of it that ‘probably by the fortunate accident of being a fragment’ it ‘leaves us to put our own construction upon the weird seaman; and, though it retains the homely ship-carpenter, is on the whole the most satisfactory of all the versions.’
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But it was necessary to secure the services of the chief ship-carpenter, who was consequently made privy to the plot.
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I asked the fellow what business he was engaged in, and he told me he was a ship-carpenter.
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Peter, Emperor of Russia, has taken service on the wharfs of Saardam as simple ship-carpenter under the assumed name of Peter Michaelow.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
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Ferrall of the Island of St. Croix, on the 1st day of July last; is by trade a Caulker and ship-carpenter; has lived at Newbury, in New-England; was the property of Mr. Mark Quane, who sold him to Mr. Craddock of Nevis, from whom the above gentlemen bought him about three years ago; is about 5 feet 8 inches high; age about 37 years; SPEAKS GOOD ENGLISH, CAN READ AND
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James made him a knight, so that, instead of the obscure ship-carpenter who had formerly dwelt among them, the inhabitants of Boston welcomed him on his return as the rich and famous Sir William Phipps.
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Tired of tending sheep, he next apprenticed himself to a ship-carpenter, and spent about four years in hewing the crooked limbs of oak trees into knees for vessels.
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