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Meanings of shipwright in English

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A carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels.

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        Examples for "shipbuilder"
        Examples for "shipbuilder"
        1
        Guide number two came up, with the shipbuilder and Somers in tow.
        The Submarine Boys and the Spies / Dodging the Sharks of the Dee...
        2
        You would go to the shipbuilder and the shipmaster for your information.
        Westminster Sermons / with a Preface
        3
        Labour-supporting son of a shipbuilder becomes New Labour donor and racehorse owner.
        The Guardian
        4
        Other vessels have been constructed by me, in my role as shipbuilder.
        Depths
        5
        Elaborate and complicated drawings having been prepared, the shipbuilder begins his work.
        Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships
        1
        A spokesman for Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest ship builder, declined to comment.
        Reuters
        2
        Mr. March was a ship builder at Plymouth.
        A Little Girl in Old Boston
        3
        You should have been a ship builder, Captain.
        Quest for honour
        4
        He was a ship builder by trade.
        Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
        5
        Oliver was the son of a ship builder, and had a launch and a yacht of his own.
        The Boy Scout Camera Club; Or, the Confession of a Photograph
        Usage of shipwright in English
        1
        He told his boss, master shipwright John Allin, the appalling news.
        The Guardian
        2
        The fight was begun between a single Jersey shipwright and a French war-ship.
        The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete
        3
        I was a shipwright, one of many who worked on her.
        Doom of the Dragon
        4
        It is not my intention to treat this subject from a shipwright's point of view.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884
        5
        A week's earlier start, a little more energy in some clerk, tailor, bootmaker, shipwright-whoknows?
        For Fortune and Glory: A Story of the Soudan War
        6
        Pitt stared at him, and the shipwright poured out his dismal news in a dismal tone.
        Captain Blood
        7
        The necessary repairs are being effected by one of the crew, who is a practical shipwright.
        Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890...
        8
        They were of such a height as to permit the shipwright getting under the vessel's bottom.
        By Water to the Columbian Exposition
        9
        Peter the Great of Russia employs Brant, a Dutch shipwright, to build a vessel at Archangel.
        The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
        10
        Our shipwright is one Jan Vroom of Rotterdam.
        The confusion
        11
        And when you want to buy a ship, the shipwright or the pilot would be better?
        The Republic
        12
        That she was wed to his father's shipwright and pregnant to boot only made her more intriguing.
        A clash of kings
        13
        But he, too, was soon avenged: the old shipwright hewed down his foe with his heavy axe.
        The Bride of the Nile — Volume 08
        14
        It is often remarked, by white residents, that an Indian is a carpenter and shipwright by intuition.
        The Naturalist on the River Amazons
        15
        SOCRATES: And who will direct the shipwright?
        Cratylus
        16
        I've served my time as a shipwright.
        Kindred of the Dust
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        Shipwright through the time