metalwright

plural metalwrights

1. A metalworker.

   [No.] 207 [Name of Person Listed] Shoener William M [Year of Birth] 1899 [Residence, 1952] Same [Occupation] Metalwright

   1953, City of Quincy Adult Inhabitants Listed as of January 1, 1953, Quincy, Mass., page 2

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   The cradle part of the demonstrator model is lined with foam rubber and covered with pink quilting. A metalwright by trade, Mr. Paramore described three built-in motions — glide (linear movement back and forth), rock (end-to-end seesaw motion), and jump (up-and-down bounce).

   1957 August 21, Elizabeth Morgan, “Baby-Rocking Mother-⁠-⁠-Plug That Cradle In”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume XC, number 56, Atlanta, Ga., page 14

   The Henry W. VanDykes, 207 Rosedale ave­nue, (he’s the metalwright at Doehler-Jarvis division) are planning a coastwise cruise from New York to San Francisco that will take them through the Panama canal. VanDyke is a veteran sailor who comes naturally by his love for the sea. His father was cap­tain of a Great Lakes ship and the son work­ed on vessels there . . .

   1967 March 15, “All Around the Town”, in Pottstown Mercury, volume 36, number 144, Pottstown, Pa., page four

   The first element of iron manufacture that changed in the eighteenth century was the fuel. In 1709 coke—cooked coal with the sulphur driven off—was used successfully in casting iron. Abraham Darby, a Quaker millwright and metalwright, found the process while experimenting at his small plant in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.

   1974, James D[aniel] Hardy, Jr.; Arthur J. Slavin, “An Era of Revolution”, in Boyd H. Hill, Jr., editor, The Western World: The Development of Modern Civilization, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, part two (The Modern World), page 250

   It was two hours later when the carefree metalwright swung along Harrington Street heading for his favorite pub, the chill of the winter evening warmed by the glow that comes with Friday and two days of leisure lying ahead.

   1981, Dan Streib, chapter 19, in Down Under and Dirty (Hawk), New York, N.Y.: Jove Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 133

   The dwarrows, who are metalwrights as well as stonecrafters, reveal that the sword Minneyar that Josua’s people seek is actually the blade known as Bright-Nail, which was buried with Prester John, father of Josua and Elias.

   1993, Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn; 3), part I, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., published 1994, →ISBN, pages xix–xx