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单词 ploughwright
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ploughwrightplowrightn.

Brit. /ˈplaʊrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈplaʊˌraɪt/
Forms: see plough n.1 and wright n.1; also Middle English plowricht, Middle English plowrighe, Middle English plowrihte, Middle English plowritte, Middle English plowryght, Middle English plowryth, 1600s plewright (Scottish), 1600s plowgwright, 1600s 1900s– plowright.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plough n.1, wright n.1
Etymology: < plough n.1 + wright n.1Earliest attested as a surname.
A maker of ploughs.
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ploughwrightc1269
plough-maker1652
c1269 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/15/19) m. 2 Robertus Plochewrychte.
1285 in W. P. Baildon Court Rolls Wakefield (1901) 195 Robert le Plogwryth.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 405 Plow wryhte [?a1475 Winch. Plow wryth], carrucarius.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 97v A Plugh wryght [1483 BL Add. 89074 Plughe wryghte], carucarius.
1506–7 in D. Dymond Reg. Thetford Priory (1995) I. 224 To the plow wrytes.
1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §30 The Art or Occupation of a Smith, Wheel-wright, Plough-wright, Mill-wright, Carpenter.
1630 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1897) 12 308 (table) Plowright, wheelewright, carpenter, sawyer.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 190 A Plough-wright or Plough maker..cannot work true to a false foundation.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxi. 141 Plow-Wrights always take this Subtense at the Fore-End of a Beam, whether it be a long Beam or a short one.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. iii. 22 A country carpenter..is..a joiner, a cabinet-maker..as well as a wheel-wright, a plough-wright [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1855 G. Emerson Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs (new ed.) 655/1 The manufacture of even the commoner instruments has..passed out of the hands of the village ploughwright and hedge-carpenter.
1885 W. Rye Hist. Norfolk 117 These Thaxters..seem to have been blacksmiths and plough-wrights for generations.
1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic vi. 171 The ploughwright Matthew Hamont..was burned at Norwich in 1578.
1997 D. Deutsch Fabric of Reality i. 15 Wheels are no longer designed or made by wheelwrights, nor ploughs by ploughwrights, nor are letters written by scribes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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cart-wright, house-wright, plough-wright, ship-wright, timber-wright, wagon-wright, wain-wright, wheel-wright: see those words.extracted from wrightn.1
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