treewright

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treewright

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From Middle English *tre-wrighte, from Old English trēowwyrhta (“wood-worker, carpenter”), equivalent to tree + wright.

noun treewrights

archaic, historical, literary, rare A worker of wood, carpenter, joiner. The work of the treewright or structural woodworker differed from that of the later medieval carpenter, in the reliance on building by eye, the controlled splitting of timber (rather that sawing), and reliance on unmeasured joints.
Similar: woodwright

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@misc{treewright_2026,
  title = {treewright},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/treewright},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}