wainwright
IPA: wˈeɪnraɪt
noun
- A person who builds and repairs wagons.
- An English surname originating as an occupation
- A municipal district (Municipal District of Wainwright No. 61) and town therein, in Alberta, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama.
- A minor city in North Slope Borough, Alaska.
- An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Milton Township, Jackson County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Warwick Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
- A town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
- (climbing) Any of the 214 fells (hills and mountains) described in A. Wainwright's Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–1966), often visited as a form of peak bagging.
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Examples of "wainwright" in Sentences
- I didn't think anyone would understand wainwright though.
- Think I'll nip up to Innominate Tarn and tell Wainwright.
- The seat of the municipality is set in the Town of Wainwright.
- Walna Scar is the highest of Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
- The list below has been arranged in alphabetical order rather than height in order to align as far as possible with the list at the back of Wainwright's book.
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