wheelwright

IPA: wˈiɫraɪt

A comparatively rare English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made wooden wheels.
A home rule-class city in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
A village in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
A person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones.

Examples of "wheelwright" in Sentences

Like a Wrist under the wheelwright of a tottering cartel!
He moved a barn from the other side of the road to a spot next to the kitchen end of the half of the wheelwright shed.
He cut the old wheelwright building in two, hoisted it up on a set of wheels, and moved one-half to the other side of the house.
The Middle English word (in the sense of "builder") was wright (from the Old English wryhta), which could be used in compound forms such as wheelwright or boatwright. [
Now the wheelwright was a choleric man, and one fine afternoon, returning from a short absence, found Tom occupied with one of his pet adzes, the edge of which was fast vanishing under our hero's care.
A mile outside Wavigny, they suffered bad luck in the form of a broken wheel, and Fondard raged at the resulting delay, for even he could not command the immediate services of a wheelwright in the early hours of the morning.
A native North Carolinian from a poor family with no formal education who had scratched out a living in one trade after another innkeeper, blacksmith, wheelwright, ferryman, preacher, farmer, even doctor, longtime state legislator and ardent democrat, Bloodworth represented New Hanover County in the Cape Fear region of the Tidewater.