Meanings
plural woodwrights
- A woodworker.
These legends of many-sided craftsmanship, of gold and silver and armourer's work, the stories of the masters in marble and stone, the weavers and the dyers, the woodwrights, the carvers and the painters, […]
1912, Henry Wilson, On Workmanship: A Lecture, page 20Synonyms: carpenter, joiner, timberwright, treewright
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA woodworker.
Origin
From wood + wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.
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woodwright. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woodwright
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