shipwright

UK/ˈʃɪpɹaɪt/US/ˈʃɪpɹaɪt/

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: shipwrights

A shipwright is a craftsman who builds and repairs ships. Work as a shipwright.

The wright in it means a maker, as in wheelwright and playwright. A shipwright in wood worked to the eye as much as to any drawing.

Definitions of shipwright

1nounshipwrightA craftsman who builds and repairs ships.C1
“The shipwright had built forty boats and drawn plans for none.”

shipwright is a craftsman.

Where it comes from

Old English scipwyrhta is ship plus wright, a maker.

Old English
sċipwyrhta
Middle English
shipwright
English, today
shipwright

From Middle English shipwright, shippwright, schipwricht, ship-wriȝth, from Old English sċipwyrhta, equivalent to ship + wright.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

Practise this word

shipwright in the wild

Peter Pett was an English shipwright who worked for the Royal Navy and served as the second resident commissioner at Chatham Dockyard.
Peter Pett (shipwright, died 1672)
The so-called Pett dynasty was a family of shipwrights who prospered in England between the 15th and 17th centuries.
Pett dynasty
Mathew Baker was one of the most renowned Tudor shipwrights, and the first to put the practice of shipbuilding down on paper.
Mathew Baker (shipwright)
Sir Anthony Deane, FRS was an English shipwright and politician who sat in the English House of Commons and served as mayor of Harwich.
Anthony Deane (shipwright)
Thomas Morton was a Scottish shipwright and inventor.
Thomas Morton (shipwright)

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