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woodwright

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From wood + wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.

noun woodwrights

A woodworker. These legends of many-sided craftsmanship, of gold and silver and armourer's work, the stories of the masters in marble and stone, the weavers and the dyers, the woodwrights, the carvers and the painters, […]
Similar: carpenter, joiner, timberwright, treewright

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@misc{woodwright_2026,
  title = {woodwright},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/woodwright},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}