Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of a wheelwright.
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- noun The
trade of awheelwright .
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Examples
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No. He taught wheelwrighting at South Carolina State College in the time, you know, when they were having buggies and carriages and wagons and all like that, farm implements.
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Here has been developed the full range of farming industries, stock raising and the cultivation of the various crops adapted to the soil, together with shops for mechanical work, embracing carpentry, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, steam-sawing, sewing and other branches of domestic economy.
The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 1, March, 1898 Various
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He must often combine carpentry and wheelwrighting and work at the forge, with his agricultural pursuits.
Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
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He hired his own time and that of his boys from his master at so much per day and taught them the trades, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting and carpentry which these boys as fathers have handed down to their posterity and some of their children are now teaching these trades in the schools and making a fair living for their own families.
Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses; With Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives Sara J. Duncan 1906
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There are no industries from which can be obtained such profitable and immediate results as those of scientific agriculture, stock-raising, fruit-growing, mattress-making, carpentry, wheelwrighting, blacksmithing,
Evidences of Progress Among Colored People G. F. Richings 1902
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We began teaching wheelwrighting and blacksmithing in a small way to the men, and laundry work, cooking and sewing and housekeeping to the young women.
The Negro Problem Timothy Thomas Fortune 1892
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Uniontown, Ala., with Messrs.J. L. Dykes and Company, doing a general wheelwrighting and blacksmithing business -- the largest business of its kind in the town.
Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885
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The student in wheelwrighting receives instruction in wood-turning; the course is the same as that given to students in carpentry.
Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885
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He himself was taking instruction in the wheelwrighting division, and could give at first-hand the information I most desired.
Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885
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I had been used to being kept from the use of tools and everything that would really help me to learn wheelwrighting; the only chances I ever had being to
Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885
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