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Definition of Shipwrights
1. shipwright [n] - See also: shipwright
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipwrights
Literary usage of Shipwrights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trades' Societies and Strikes by Committee on Trades' Societies (1860)
"LIVERPOOL shipwrights. [Materials:—Poll Books of 1790; Committee of House of
Commons ; Artisans and Machinery; Minutes of Masters' Association for 1823-24; ..."
2. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1897)
"9, 1724, "the several petitioners, shipwrights, attending their Lordships, had
some discourse with them, who said that since the late war the number of ..."
3. The Marine Engineer (1882)
"The shipwrights, both in the Royal and in private dockyards, could hold their
... The system of employing shipwrights who were workers in wood as fitters in ..."
4. The British Navy: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration by Thomas Brassey Brassey (1883)
"As we are met together this evening under the auspices of the shipwrights' Company,
it seems appropriate to refer to the signal services rendered to ..."
5. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1895)
"shipwrights, BARGE AND BOAT BUILDERS. (Section 13.) Census Enumeration.
Census Divisions. 1891. ... SW shipwrights ..."
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