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Housewright

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).

    "The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil."

Etymology

From house + wright (“builder”).

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