woodwright

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English

Etymology

From wood +‎ wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (carpenter, literally timber-wright), Old English trēowwyrhta (carpenter), see treewright, timberwright.

Noun

woodwright (plural woodwrights)

  1. A woodworker.
    • 1912, Henry Wilson, On Workmanship: A Lecture, page 20:
      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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