Woodwright
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A woodworker.
"These legends of many-sided craftsmanship, of gold and silver and armourer's work, the stories of the masters in marble and stone, the weavers and the dyers, the woodwrights, the carvers and the painters, […]"
Example
More examples"These legends of many-sided craftsmanship, of gold and silver and armourer's work, the stories of the masters in marble and stone, the weavers and the dyers, the woodwrights, the carvers and the painters, […]"
Etymology
From wood + wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.
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