noun
definition
A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones.
Examples of shipwright in a Sentence
But Mary was adventurous and wanted more of her life, and thus she became the first female shipwright.
Other locations of interest include a shipwright 's cottage and a reconstructed Inn of the sort used by sailors ashore.
Odysseus made his raft as wide as a skilled shipwright makes the hull of a broad-beamed trading vessel.
A Dutch master shipwright was commissioned in 1625 to build four new ships, including the Vasa.
Indeed, my first employment upon leaving school was as an apprentice shipwright, based on the St Andrew's Dock in Hull.
However, strange hieroglyphs were shown by an old shipwright to be " Unicorn " upside down!
Its great abundance of curved trunks and boughs rendered the oak peculiarly valuable to the shipwright when the process of bending timber artificially was less understood; the curved pieces are still useful for knees.
Indeed, my first employment upon leaving school was as an apprentice shipwright, based on the St Andrew 's Dock in Hull.