boatwright

English

Etymology

From Middle English botwright, botwrythe, equivalent to boat +‎ wright.

Noun

boatwright (plural boatwrights)

1. A maker of boats, especially of traditional wooden construction.
   • 1999, Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine for the Soul:

     From the early fourteenth century onwards, the hospital employed a cook and his assistant, along with an assortment of hired hands, including a laundress, a palfreyman, a boatwright, a smith and a swineherd.

Translations

maker of wooden boats

• Danish: bådebygger c
• Finnish: veneenveistäjä
• Japanese: 船工 (ja) (せんこう, senkō), 船大工 (ja) (ふなだいく, funadaiku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: båtbygger m

• Russian: шлю́почный ма́стер m (šljúpočnyj máster)