SHIPWRIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipwright mean? 

• SHIPWRIGHT (noun)
  The noun SHIPWRIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels

  Familiarity information: SHIPWRIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPWRIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ship builder; shipbuilder; shipwright

Hypernyms ("shipwright" is a kind of...):

wright (someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination))

 Context examples 

“And as shipwright and able assistant,” she laughed back.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders' yards, shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers' lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said, Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)