English Explanatory Dictionary

woodwright

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A woodworker.

Word forms

woodwright woodwrights

Etymology

From wood + wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.

Synonyms

carpenter joiner timberwright treewright
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