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UK
/ʃˈɪpɹaɪt/
]
[ US /ˈʃɪˌpɹaɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɪˌpɹaɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
How To Use shipwright In A Sentence
- Clinker shipbuilding was a genuine craft, in which the shipwright remained close to his materials.
- There was slave labor available, but shipwrights, machinists, sailmakers, and all the skilled trades required in shipbuilding were in critically short supply.
- Louis Palmer's days as a shipwright had not been wasted. KARA KUSH
- Mark Donohue, 32, a shipwright from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, is hard at work making a mast from a 62-foot piece of short leaf yellow pine from South Carolina at the Middle Atlantic States section. It’s all Folk!
- By contrast, a Scottish artiste might play to sodden Glasgow shipwrights, a restrained middle class audience and a temperance rally in the same week.
- The crane jib came to rest on the pontoon narrowly missing a civilian shipwright working beside Young Endeavour.
- A family of Tamil shipwrights were adzing baulks of timber into banana-shaped fishing rafts.
- American shipwrights would come to understand that it could be soaked in brine and made workable, and it soon became apparent that salt water had a tremendous preservative effect on the wood.
- The shipwrights would see how much shypoo they could swallow without dropping.
- Shipwrights now required a labour force of workmen with a different set of skills who could saw to length and fit a ship together according to plan.