housewrights

Noun

housewright (plural housewrights)

1. 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).
   • The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil.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

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