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Definition of Shipwright
1. Noun. A carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels.
Definition of Shipwright
1. n. One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
Definition of Shipwright
1. Noun. A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shipwright
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipwright
Literary usage of Shipwright
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1889)
"There is no engraver's name; and no very certain means of determining the hand;
for convenience we may call it the shipwright Map. ..."
2. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at by Pepys Library, Samuel Pepys, Great Britain Admiralty. Archives, J[oseph] R[obson] Tanner (1904)
"Order for the new yacht at Chatham to be put in hand, to be built by Mr. Pett,1
shipwright there, for i,S5O/. To pay off the Hampshire, now at Chatham. ..."
3. Genealogies of the Different Families Bearing the Name of Kent in the United by Lloyd Vernon Briggs (1898)
"David Kent, yeoman $ Sam'1 Kent, shipwright, both of Scituate, in consideration
of $150 paid by Joshua Dwelley, shipwright & Melzer Hatch, yeoman, ..."
4. Forms of Practice, Or, American Precedents in Personal and Real Actions by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1851)
"For the labor and services, as a shipwright, before that time, done and performed
by the plaintiff in repairing a certain ship of the said E, called &,c., ..."
5. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"By George Everett, shipwright. London, Printed in the Year 1695. Quarto.
Containing twenty-four Pagei. To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and ..."
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