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wheelwright|ˈhwiːlraɪt|
Forms: see wheel n. and wright.
1. A man who makes wheels and wheeled vehicles.
1281Pat. 9 Edw. I m. 22 d. in 50th Rep. Dep. Kpr. Rec. 22 Richard le Whelwryht. 1482Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 198 To the whele wryte of Boxford for exyng of a carte v.d. 1483Cath. Angl. 415/2 A Whele wryght, rotarius. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §134 If there be asshes in it, [I advise thee] to sell.. the gret asshes to whele-wryghtes. 1534Nottingham Rec. III. 373 Thomas Hobe..the qwyl⁓wryght. 1662in Proc. Suffolk Inst. Archæol. (1883) VI. 90 To Jno Blomfield Whealewright as by his bill, 01 05 00. 1799Monthly Rev. XXX. 486 They carry with them only their best wood for spars and wheelwright's work. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt Introd., The wheelwright putting the last touch to a blue cart with red wheels.
†2. One who works at or turns a wheel: applied to Fortune (cf. wheel n. 12 a). Obs.
a1300Poem on Fortune v. in Rel. Ant. II. 8 A wifman of so much myȝth, So wonder a whelwryȝth, Sey I nevere with syȝth. c1420Anturs of Arth. xxi. (Thornton MS.) False fortune in fyghte, That wondirfulle whele wryghte.
Hence ˈwheelˌwrighting, the business of a wheelwright: the making of wheels and wheeled vehicles.
1883Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 253 Carpentry, harness⁓making, wheelwrighting. 1894Review of Rev. Apr. 441/2 Wheel-wrighting also grows of necessity out of the making and care of the wagons and other vehicles of the farm. |