shipwright
a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels.
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How to use shipwright in a sentence
The Chews got into the logging business because they’re builders and shipwrights and it was too expensive to bring up timber from Washington.
Loggers could soon slice through one of the most important forests in the US | By Bjorn Dihle/ Outdoor Life | September 30, 2020 | Popular-ScienceHe complained that he had gone to see a great prince, and had found only an industrious shipwright.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayIn all ages a great ship is a great wonder, representing for the time the final triumph of the shipwright's art.
The Age of Erasmus | P. S. AllenThis friend was a foreman shipwright, who, since his return from America, had borne the name of Tom Robson.
Garman and Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandBut she knew that was only because, like Peter the Great in a shipwright's yard, he was studying what he wanted to know.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy
A Boston shipwright was sent South to select live oak, red cedar, and hard pine.
Hero Stories from American History | Albert F. Blaisdell
British Dictionary definitions for shipwright
/ (ˈʃɪpˌraɪt) /
an artisan skilled in one or more of the tasks required to build vessels
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