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  • noun Plural form of housewright.

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  • Others included housewrights, master carpenters, sawyers, masons, blacksmiths, gunners, armorers, and locksmiths serruriers who were expert in the repair of gunlocks.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Others included housewrights, master carpenters, sawyers, masons, blacksmiths, gunners, armorers, and locksmiths serruriers who were expert in the repair of gunlocks.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • When La Salle set out on his rugged journey to Fort Frontenac, he left, as we have seen, fifteen men at Fort Crèvecoeur, -- smiths, ship-carpenters, housewrights, and soldiers, besides his servant l'Esperance and the two friars Membré and Ribourde.

    France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858

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