单词 | shipwright |
释义 | shipwrightn. 1. A man employed in the construction of ships.The Company of Shipwrights was incorporated in 1605. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > boat-builder or shipbuilder > [noun] shipwrightc1000 boatwright1367 naupeger1578 boatbuilder1625 naupegusc1632 shipbuilder1711 yacht-builder1868 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 112/5 Nauicularius, scipwyrhta. 1297 in W. P. W. Phillimore Placita Coram Rege (1898) 149 Thomam le Shipwrighte. 13.. K. Alis. 3665 Hit denned, so ryght, As on nayl doth theo schipwryght. 1474–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 645 Thome Witwang, Shipwright, cum 2 famulis, operantibus circa reparacionem medietatis de le Ferybote de Billyngham. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 222 Schipwrichtis hewand vpone the strand. 1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Hviijv As touchyng shypwryghtes, there be as good in england as in any other realme. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 64 To make a Helm, is the office of a Shipwright, but to use it rightly of a Pilot. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1680 (1955) IV. 203 Old Mr. Shish Master Shipwrite of the Kings Yard. 1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 12 To draw a Shipwright's Arch. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. ix. 451 As when a shipwright with his wimble bores Tough oaken timber. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 15 The hammer of the shipwright shaping strong ribs for the horses of the sea. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile iv. 90 The ship-wrights are busy on new boats. 2. (See quot. 1883.) Π 1883 F. Day Fishes Brit. & Ireland 306 Spotted ones [sc. lings] are taken off Mevagissey and termed shipwrights, having a resemblance to the spilt pitch on the clothes of these mechanics. Derivatives ˈshipwrighting n. the art or occupation of a shipwright; shipwright's work. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > specific trades shipwrightry1711 shipwrighting1894 1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 158 Carpentering, ship-wrighting, and engine-fitting. ˈshipwrightry n. = shipwrighting n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > specific trades shipwrightry1711 shipwrighting1894 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 22 I was concern'd that Shipwrightry should be utterly neglected. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §50 The whole of the building was..a piece of Shipwrightry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2020). > as lemmasship-wright cart-wright, house-wright, plough-wright, ship-wright, timber-wright, wagon-wright, wain-wright, wheel-wright: see those words.extracted from wrightn.1< as lemmas |
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