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shipwright|ˈʃɪpraɪt|
Forms: see ship n.1 + wright n.
1. A man employed in the construction of ships.
The Company of Shipwrights was incorporated in 1605.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 112/5 Nauicularius, scipwyrhta. 1297Coram Rege Roll m. 23 b, (1898) 149 Thomam le Shipwright. 13..K. Alis. 3665 Hit denned, so ryght, As on nayl doth theo schipwryght. 1474–5Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 645 Thome Witwang, Shipwright, cum 2 famulis operantibus circa reparacionem medietatis de le Fery⁓bote de Billyngham. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxiii. 14 Schip⁓wrichtis hewand vpone the strand. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §156 As touchyng shypwryghtes, there be as good in England as in any other realme. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. vi. (1687) 184 To make a Helm, is the office of a Shipwright, but to use it rightly of a Pilot. a1700Evelyn Diary 13 June 1680, Old Mr. Shish, master shipwright of his Majesty's Yard here [Deptford]. 1725W. Halfpenny Sound Building 12 To draw a Shipwright's Arch. 1790Cowper Odyss. ix. 451 As when a shipwright with his wimble bores Tough oaken timber. 1848Lytton Harold i. i, The hammer of the shipwright shaping strong ribs for the horses of the sea. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile iv. 90 The ship-wrights are busy on new boats.
2. (See quot.)
1883Day Fishes Gt. Brit. 306 Spotted ones [sc. lings] are taken off Mevagissey and termed shipwrights, having a resemblance to the spilt pitch on the clothes of these mechanics.
Hence ˈshipwrighting, ˈshipwrightry, the art or occupation of a shipwright; shipwright's work.
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 22, I was concern'd that Shipwrightry should be utterly neglected. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §50 The whole of the building was..a piece of Shipwrightry. 1894A. Morrison Mean Streets 158 Carpentering, ship-wrighting, and engine-fitting. |