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wooden | housewright |

As an adjective wooden

is made of wood.

As a noun 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).

wooden

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Made of wood.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • (label) As if made of wood, moving awkwardly, unmoving.

    • Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en

    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