wheelwrightn.
/ˈwiːlrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wilˌraɪt/ 1. A man who makes wheels and wheeled vehicles.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of wheels or wheeled vehicles
wheelwright1281
cartwright14..
wheeler1497
cart-maker1579
coach-wright1587
coach-maker1599
coach-wheeler1686
coach-builder1794
coach-joiner1800
wainwright1855
wagon-wright1858
wheel-assembler1897
auto worker1901
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > making wheels or wheeled vehicles > one who
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wheeler1497
coach-wheeler1686
1281 Patent Roll 9 Edward I m. 22v, in 50th Rep. Dep. Kpr. Rec. 22 Richard le Whelwryht.
1482 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 198 To the whele wryte of Boxford for exyng of a carte v.d.
1483 Cath. Angl. 415/2 A Whele wryght, rotarius.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiiv If there be asshes in it, [I advise thee] to sell..the graet asshes to whele wrightes.
1534 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 373 Thomas Hobe..the qwyl~wryght.
1662 in Proc. Suffolk Inst. Archæol. (1883) VI. 90 To Jno Blomfield Whealewright as by his bill, 01 05 00.
1799 Monthly Rev. 30 486 They carry with them only their best wood for spars and wheelwright's work.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 6 The wheelwright putting the last touch to a blue cart with red wheels.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > wheel of fortune > one who works at or turns
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a1300 Poem on Fortune v, in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 8 A wifman of so much myȝth, So wonder a whelwryȝth, Sey I nevere with syȝth.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. xxi. (Thornton) False fortune in fyghte, That wondirfulle whele wryghte.
Derivatives
ˈwheelˌwrighting n. the business of a wheelwright: the making of wheels and wheeled vehicles.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > wheel-making > [noun]
wheelage1681
wheelwrighting1883
wheel-assembly1897
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > making wheels or wheeled vehicles
wheelwrighting1883
wheel-assembly1897
1883 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 253 Carpentry, harness~making, wheelwrighting.
1894 Rev. of Reviews Apr. 441/2 Wheel-wrighting also grows of necessity out of the making and care of the wagons and other vehicles of the farm.
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wheel-wright
cart-wright, house-wright, plough-wright, ship-wright, timber-wright, wagon-wright, wain-wright, wheel-wright: see those words.extracted from wrightn.1<
n.1281as lemmas
- to take the worse and scorn the better
- to take the wrong pig by the ear
- to take the wrong pig by the tail
- to take their cloots
- to take things as one finds them
- to take things as they come
- to take thought
- to take through
- to take through hand
- to take through hands
- to take til heart
- to take till
- to take time
- to take time by the forehead
- to take time by the forelock
- to take time by the forelock formerly forehead
- to take time by the forelock formerly foretop
- to take time by the forelock formerly top
- to take time by the foretop
- to take time out
- to take time, opportunity, etc by the forelock
- to take to
- to take to bed
- to take to farm
- to take to fere or unto fere