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Meanings of wheelwright in English

Russian
колесник
Spanish
carretero
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Historical profession; craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels.

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          колесник
          Spanish
          carretero

          Someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels.

                carretero
                Usage of wheelwright in English
                1
                Hard by was one of the wheelwright-shops that lined the great thoroughfare.
                Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ
                2
                The boy she'd once believed loved her: Coumyn, the wheelwright's second son.
                The river kings' road
                3
                However, wheelwright Vian, an honest, worthy fellow, at last silenced his men.
                The Fortune of the Rougons
                4
                Gordon spent the time in the wheelwright's shop where I bought the sled.
                The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
                5
                Kieft, Governor of New Netherland, demands the murderer of the wheelwright
                A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny
                6
                Evans was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a wheelwright.
                The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
                7
                Across the lane was an archway leading into a wheelwright's yard.
                The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
                8
                Bishop Boniface, of Würzburg, was an Englishman, and his father was a wheelwright.
                Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View
                9
                He's a wheelwright and blacksmith, and she used to teach school.
                Together
                10
                He became a shoe-maker, or a harness-maker, or a wheelwright, or a gun-maker.
                Analyzing Character / The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in...
                11
                His wheelwright's business had called him to a town far off.
                The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl
                12
                They would have opened a wheelwright's workshop beside some high road.
                The Fortune of the Rougons
                13
                Like little Christie, the wheelwright's son, who must be an artist.
                The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
                14
                Oh, the wheelwright's son who went away to be an artist!
                The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
                15
                The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the head.
                Les Misérables
                16
                One rejoices in the possession of a wheelwright, while the other has a windmill.
                The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign / Why It Exists, and How I...
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