metalwright
metalwright noun: a metalworker.
Noun
metalwright (plural metalwrights)
- A metalworker.
- [No.] 207 [Name of Person Listed] Shoener William M [Year of Birth] 1899 [Residence, 1952] Same [Occupation] Metalwright1953, City of Quincy Adult Inhabitants Listed as of January 1, 1953, Quincy, Mass., page 2
- 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).1957 August 21, Elizabeth Morgan, “Baby-Rocking Mother---Plug That Cradle In”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume XC, number 56, Atlanta, Ga., page 14
Examples of metalwright in a sentence
- 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.1967 March 15, “All Around the Town”, in Pottstown Mercury, volume 36, number 144, Pottstown, Pa., page four:
- Abraham Darby, a Quaker millwright and metalwright, found the process while experimenting at his small plant in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.1974, James D[aniel] Hardy, Jr.; Arthur J. Slavin, “An Era of Revolution”, in Boyd H. Hill, Jr., editor, The Western World: The Development...
- 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.2002, Stephen Bowkett, Thaw (The Wintering), London: Dolphin Paperbacks, Orion Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 138:
- 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, Jay Lake, Escapement, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 66:
Forms of metalwright
| plural | metalwrights |
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Origin of metalwright
From metal + wright.
Questions about metalwright
- What does metalwright mean?
- Metalwright means a metalworker.
- How do you use metalwright in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is metalwright?
- Metalwright is a noun.
- What is the plural of metalwright?
- The plural of metalwright is metalwrights.
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