shipbuilder

IPA: ʃˈɪpbɪɫdɝ

noun

  • A person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.
  • A firm that specializes in building ships.

ship builder

IPA: ʃˈɪpbɪɫdɝ

noun

  • a person who builds ships as a business
  • a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
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Examples of "shipbuilder" in Sentences

    Examples of "ship-builder" in Sentences

    • DiGriz is tasked to discover who the ship-builder is.
    • A ship-builder was once asked what he thought of him.
    • Palmer was the son of a ship-builder in Stonington, Connecticut.
    • Indian corn, the old stocking-foot was at last filled, all the little odd bits, poured out and counted up, came to enough to speak to the ship-builder.
    • He also has information about ship-builder Courtney who was also on the Peninsula and who I had failed to find anything out about myself when I wrote 'Greenwich Marsh'.
    • Qwilleran had believed her to be descended from a wealthy ship-builder on Purple Point, but - no thanks to Thornton Haggis - he now suspected a less respectable heritage.
    • The principles which regulate the rapid movements of fish through water is one thing; and the attempt to imitate these principles by the ship-builder is quite another thing.
    • He hated England, as a loyal Dutchman, for generations, was compelled to do; and he held that a Dutchman was a better sailor, a better ship-builder, and a better fighter than the very best Englishman ever born.
    • He sought to join some ship; but not being able to find one, he apprenticed himself to a ship-builder, with whom he thoroughly learnt his trade, acquiring the arts of reading and writing during his leisure hours.

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