metalwright

English

Etymology

From metal +‎ wright.

Noun

metalwright (plural metalwrights)

1. A metalworker.
   • 1953, City of Quincy Adult Inhabitants Listed as of January 1, 1953, Quincy, Mass., page 2:

     [No.] 207 [Name of Person Listed] Shoener William M [Year of Birth] 1899 [Residence, 1952] Same [Occupation] Metalwright

   • 1957 August 21, Elizabeth Morgan, “Baby-Rocking Mother-⁠-⁠-Plug That Cradle In”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume XC, number 56, Atlanta, Ga., page 14:

     The cradle part of the demonstrator model is lined with foam rubber and covered with pink quilting. A metalwright by trade, Mr. Paramore described three built-in motions — glide (linear movement back and forth), rock (end-to-end seesaw motion), and jump (up-and-down bounce).

   • 1967 March 15, “All Around the Town”, in Pottstown Mercury, volume 36, number 144, Pottstown, Pa., page four:

     The Henry W. VanDykes, 207 Rosedale ave­nue, (he’s the metalwright at Doehler-Jarvis division) are planning a coastwise cruise from New York to San Francisco that will take them through the Panama canal. VanDyke is a veteran sailor who comes naturally by his love for the sea. His father was cap­tain of a Great Lakes ship and the son work­ed on vessels there . . .

   • 1974, James D[aniel] Hardy, Jr., Arthur J. Slavin, “An Era of Revolution”, in Boyd H. Hill, Jr., editor, The Western World: The Development of Modern Civilization, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, part two (The Modern World), page 250:

     The first element of iron manufacture that changed in the eighteenth century was the fuel. In 1709 coke—cooked coal with the sulphur driven off—was used successfully in casting iron. Abraham Darby, a Quaker millwright and metalwright, found the process while experimenting at his small plant in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.

   • 1981, Dan Streib, chapter 19, in Down Under and Dirty (Hawk), New York, N.Y.: Jove Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 133:

     It was two hours later when the carefree metalwright swung along Harrington Street heading for his favorite pub, the chill of the winter evening warmed by the glow that comes with Friday and two days of leisure lying ahead.

   • 1993, Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn; 3), part I, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., published 1994, →ISBN, pages xix–xx:

     The dwarrows, who are metalwrights as well as stonecrafters, reveal that the sword Minneyar that Josua’s people seek is actually the blade known as Bright-Nail, which was buried with Prester John, father of Josua and Elias.

   • 2000, Dan Abnett, “Necropolis”, in The Founding (Gaunt’s Ghosts), Nottingham, Notts.: Black Library, published 2007, →ISBN, page 621:

     Using fallen stone from the gate top, the masons erected two well-finished dyke walls just outside the gate, and the incandescent glare of oxylene torches fizzled in the night rain as the metalwrights crafted pavises and hoardings from broken tank plates.

   • 2001, Ian Irvine, Geomancer: A Tale of The Three Worlds (The Well of Echoes; 1), London: Orbit, published 2002, →ISBN, page 513:

     In their few free moments, Nish and every other able person laboured with stone and timber for the carpenters, the masons and the metalwrights as they worked to improve the defences of the manufactory.

   • 2002, Stephen Bowkett, Thaw (The Wintering), London: Dolphin Paperbacks, Orion Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 138:

     Though we are dark of cast, and labour in shadowy places, we are master metalwrights and produce tools and weapons that glitter and gleam as the outcome of our craft.

   • 2004, Carol Berg, Son of Avonar (The Bridge of D’Arnath; 1), New York, N.Y.: Roc, →ISBN, page 152:

     You would go to sleep as a modestly capable boy or girl, plagued with the normal confusions of being neither child nor adult, and then awaken the next day as a Gardener or a Builder or a Metalwright or a Healer.

   • 2008, Jay Lake, Escapement, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 66:

     And on they went, looking at and occasionally talking to metalwrights, watermen, diggers, jackers, electrickmen, chemists, assayers—an Industrial Revolution’s worth of men, al-Wazir realized.

   • 2008, K[aren] S[impson] Nikakis, The Song of the Silvercades (The Kira Chronicles; 2), Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Arena Books, Allen & Unwin, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 59 and 63:

     It was he who built King’s Hall, bringing masons and metalwrights from beyond the Silvercades. […] ‘It’s a common enough Kir name,’ said Adris. ‘Markash, Bekash, Sorkash, Yankash, we have them all here, come Summerend Fair. Most are metalwrights. The gates of King’s Hall are Kir work.’

   • 2009, Laura Anne Gilman, Flesh and Fire (The Vineart War; 1), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 392–393:

     “I was to see him the halfweek before, to plead for a reduction in the taxes he has placed on us. Impossible, to pay such a fee, and no reason for imposing it. The metalwrights are always willing to do our share, but there need must be a reason for it! He cripples us to build his treasury, and forces honest men to find work elsewhere.” / “The day I meet an honest metalwright, I’ll eat your hat,” a third voice said.

   • 2009, Patrice Sarath, Red Gold Bridge, New York, N.Y.: Ace, →ISBN, page 14:

     At least there was a shortage of ammunition, and he doubted that Aeritan had the technology to make more. The smiths and metalwrights were good, but there was only so much they could do, and making modern ammo was beyond their capabilities.

   • 2013, David R. George III, chapter 9, in Revelation and Dust (Star Trek: The Fall; 1), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 180:

     Quark stood behind his gleaming new bar—purchased for a small fortune from a metalwright on Sauria—and gazed out at his customers . . . his paltry number of customers.