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English
Etymology
From Middle English arkewrytte. By surface analysis, ark + wright.
Noun
arkwright (plural arkwrights)
- (obsolete) A maker of cabinets or chests.
1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 560:The castle arkwright put in a chequered staircase certainly. It has only one square step, to be steady, yet notwithstumbling are they stalemating backgammoner supstairs by skips and trestles tiltop double corner.
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