Woodwright

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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, […]"

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"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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