wheelwright
noun
a person whose trade it is to make or repair wheels carriages, etc.
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WheelwrightnounJohn, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
wheelwright
1 American
[hweel-rahyt, weel-]
/ ˈʰwilˌraɪt, ˈwil- /
noun
Wheelwright
2
American
[hweel-rahyt, weel-]
/ ˈʰwilˌraɪt, ˈwil- /
noun
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John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
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John Brooks, 1897–1940, U.S. poet.
wheelwright
British
/ ˈwiːlˌraɪt /
noun
Etymology
Origin of wheelwright
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at wheel, wright
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Mr Garner, 47, said the job of a wheelwright had developed over hundreds of years.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
There was also an MBE for Gregory Rowland, a master wheelwright in southwest England who helps keep an ancient craft alive — and repairs the queen’s royal carriages.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
The site overlooks a pond and includes a sawmill, wheelwright and blacksmith shop, along with a two-story house.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021
The company, started by a wheelwright and a coachbuilder, began making stagecoaches in Concord in 1826 and eventually dominated the high-end trade for horse-pulled transportation.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2019
A wheelwright and his helper squat in their dark room hammering spokes into a hub.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
“People feel cared for, they feel thought of,” Wheelwright said of the feedback they have received from those inside prisons.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022
Twenty-five miles northeast of Boym’s weekend home, in the hamlet of Elizaville, New York, Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright was finding it necessary to finish his second novel.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
The bride is a direct descendant of John Wheelwright, a Puritan who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 and in the following year founded Exeter, N.H.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2018
For four brief months in 1842 she was employed to give piano lessons to three sisters by the name of Wheelwright.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2018
To Francis Johonnot, agent for creditors of Nathaniel Wheelwright, deceased, March 7, 1786; Lib.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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