shipwright
IPA: ʃˈɪpraɪt
noun
- A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones.
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Examples of "shipwright" in Sentences
- He was a shipwright and carpenter.
- Franky joins the crew, and becomes the crew's shipwright.
- “And as shipwright and able assistant,” she laughed back.
- I am currently employed as a professional sailor and shipwright.
- Louis was forced to retire early from his trade as a shipwright.
- The pitsaws, cursed by the sawyers and praised by the shipwrights.
- Durfee was a shipwright, and Borden was the owner of a grist mill.
- Her father was a shipwright in the local docks, and her mother a nurse.
- The skill of the local shipwrights and boat builders are widely sought after.
- By 1781, Stodder had moved to Baltimore and become established as a shipwright.
- Prior to his political career, he was a shipwright and lecturer, earning a PhD.
- Only one man could put it right—the shipwright Champdoré, who “cleverly mended the rudder.”
- You enlist him as one of your companions and a shipwright should be a very useful member of your crew.
- The Catholic priest and Protestant pastor lived there, the surgeon Deschamps, and the skilled shipwright Champdoré.
- In the harbor, shipwright Champdoré repaired the damaged rudder while Champlain surveyed the anchorage and made a chart.
- It was in her blood, of course; that shipwright grandfather of hers was probably the last of a long line of merchant seamen.
- He decided to make repairs underway and took along the shipwright Champdoré, several artisans, a “store of planks,” and a shallop.70
- They know me at the Running Hart, and they gave me to wait at table a boy that I know something of, whose uncle is a shipwright in my yard.
- These men appeared in the records of many voyages to America.26 Others with professional expertise included Pierre Angibault, sieur de Champdoré, a skilled shipwright and amateur pilot.
- If he, for instance, had a shipwright build him a ship for the price of 2 ounces of gold, he might write out a note which would say, "Pay Mr. Shipwright 2 ounces of gold out of my gold on deposit at Mr. Goldsmiths's storeroom."