shipwright
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shipwright
before 1100; Middle English; Old English scipwyrhta. See ship 1, wright
Example Sentences
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In a flashback, we see a young Franky literally try to stop a train with his bare hands to rescue Tom, the wrongly arrested shipwright who took him in as an orphan.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023
Residents were listed as having a range of occupations, from grocer and carpenter to shipwright and pastor.
From Washington Post • May 24, 2021
Before he sailed, he gave his palace and all its goods to the shipwright—an ironic gift, since the palace and its goods, and presumably the shipwright, too, would be destroyed the next day.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
When Jensen shut down, “we lost some of the physical infrastructure,” says Brian Johnson, 64, another former Jensen shipwright who is heavily involved in the Halibut Flats project.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2019
A master shipwright, building a cargo vessel, lays down a broad and shallow hull; just so Odysseus shaped the bottom of his craft.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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