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Boatwright
name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname originating as an occupation.
Noun
- 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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