Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that builds or repairs ships.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A builder of ships; a ship-carpenter.
- noun A local English name of the spotted ling: so called because it has “a resemblance to the spilt pitch on the clothes of these mechanics.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
designs ,builds andrepairs ships , especiallywooden ones
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
Etymologies
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Examples
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You enlist him as one of your companions and a shipwright should be a very useful member of your crew.
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912
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“And as shipwright and able assistant,” she laughed back.
Chapter 37 2010
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They know me at the Running Hart, and they gave me to wait at table a boy that I know something of, whose uncle is a shipwright in my yard.
Movie Night 2010
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It was in her blood, of course; that shipwright grandfather of hers was probably the last of a long line of merchant seamen.
Movie Night 2010
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If he, for instance, had a shipwright build him a ship for the price of 2 ounces of gold, he might write out a note which would say, "Pay Mr. Shipwright 2 ounces of gold out of my gold on deposit at Mr. Goldsmiths's storeroom."
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Only one man could put it right—the shipwright Champdoré, who “cleverly mended the rudder.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In the harbor, shipwright Champdoré repaired the damaged rudder while Champlain surveyed the anchorage and made a chart.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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These men appeared in the records of many voyages to America.26 Others with professional expertise included Pierre Angibault, sieur de Champdoré, a skilled shipwright and amateur pilot.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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He decided to make repairs underway and took along the shipwright Champdoré, several artisans, a “store of planks,” and a shallop.70
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The Catholic priest and Protestant pastor lived there, the surgeon Deschamps, and the skilled shipwright Champdoré.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
chained_bear commented on the word shipwright
The H.M.S. Shipwright was listed as a "transport" captured at Yorktown in 1781.
October 29, 2007