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wheelwright
1[ hweel-rahyt, weel- ]
Wheelwright
2[ hweel-rahyt, weel- ]
noun
- John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
- John Brooks, 1897–1940, U.S. poet.
wheelwright
/ ˈwiːlˌraɪt /
noun
- a person who makes or mends wheels as a trade
Word History and Origins
Origin of wheelwright1
Example Sentences
In Cuba’s capital, the former wheelwright “saw the small embankment on the bay there, where the people sat under the palms, enjoying the breezes.”
The wheelwright fells trees "with the gleaming iron," iron being a synonym for axe and for knife.
At the supper table he was given the seat of honor, Mrs. Wheelwright being on his right and Stella on his left.
Almost covered by the wood stores of a wheelwright is a doorway with carved spandrils, and a label ending in sculptured heads.
Dolly Winthrop, the wife of the jolly wheelwright who makes one of the company at the "Rainbow," is no less admirable.
There was a shoemaker—two of them—a tailor or two, a blacksmith, a wheelwright.
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