Boatwright

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation.
Noun
  1. 1
    A maker of boats, especially of traditional wooden construction.

    "From the early fourteenth century onwards, the hospital employed a cook and his assistant, along with an assortment of hired hands, including a laundress, a palfreyman, a boatwright, a smith and a swineherd."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English botwright, botwrythe, equivalent to boat + wright.

Etymology 2

From boatwright.

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