housewright
Appearance
See also: Housewright
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From house + wright (“builder”).
Noun
[edit]housewright (plural housewrights)
- 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 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.
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:housewright.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 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