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Craftsman vs Housewright - What's the difference?

craftsman | housewright |

As nouns the difference between craftsman and housewright

is that craftsman is a building built in the craftsman architectural style while housewright is a person who builds]] and repairs houses, especially wooden houses particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial america, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally [[joint#verb|jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).

As an adjective craftsman

is of an architectural style prominent in the united states in the early 20th century.

craftsman

English

(wikipedia craftsman)

Noun

(craftsmen)
  • A male artisan.
  • * 2005 , .
    • And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}

    Antonyms

    * craftswoman

    Hypernyms

    * artisan * (rare) craftsperson

    housewright

    English

    Noun

  • A person who builds]] and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally [[joint#Verb, jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).
  • * 1828, Charles Caldwell, A discourse on the genius and character of the Rev. Horace Holley, LL. D.: late president of Transylvania University , Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, pages 208-209.
    • The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil.
  • * 1902, Virginia Robie, Colonial furniture , in The House Beautiful (An Illustrated Magazine of Household Art), October 1902 (vol. 12, number 5), Herbert S. Stone, page 270
    • The names of the colonial craftsmen had changed. The joiner and the turner and the housewright had become the cabinet-maker, the chair-maker, and the carpenter.
  • * 1914, Alfred Johnson, History and genealogy of one line of descent from Captain Edward Johnson: together with his English ancestry, 1500-1914 , Stanhope Press (F.H. Gilson Company), page 63
    • John Johnson resided in Woburn, Mass., and was by occupation a housewright or carpenter and owned a saw-mill in Woburn.

    References

    * 1852, A Literary Association, A hand-book of Anglo-Saxon orthography , John A. Gray, pages 75 and 80. * 1913, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G & C. Merriam Co., page 710

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "housewright")

    See also

    * carpenter * wright