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wheelwright

wheelwright noun: a person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones.

wheelwright: a person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones
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Noun

wheelwright (plural wheelwrights)

  1. (historical) A person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones.
    • Near-synonym: wheelsmith
    • The wheels are the wright's distinguishing mark of his trade. It is the wheels that separate him off from the craft of carpenter: a wheelwright is equal to any job in the carpenter's craft but a carpenter cannot make a wheel [with commensurate quality and speed]. Percy Wilson [a wheelwright...1971, George Ewart Evans, Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 32

Proper noun capitalized: Wheelwright

Wheelwright

  1. A comparatively rare English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made wooden wheels.
  2. A home rule-class city in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
  3. A village in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

wheelwright meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit

wheelwright in Tamil

வண்டிக் கம்மியர்

wheelwright in Malayalam

വണ്ടിത്തച്ചൻ, ചക്രങ്ങളും വണ്ടിയും നിർമ്മിക്കുന്നവൻ

wheelwright in Kannada

ಗಾಲಿಕಾರ

wheelwright in Sanskrit

person who builds and repairs wheels
सूत sūta

Synonyms of wheelwright

Forms of wheelwright

pluralwheelwrights

Origin of wheelwright

From Middle English whelwryghte; equivalent to wheel + wright.

Questions about wheelwright

What does wheelwright mean?
Wheelwright means a person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones.
What is wheelwright in Tamil?
Wheelwright in Tamil is வண்டிக் கம்மியர். See Wheelwright meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wheelwright?
Wheelwright can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of wheelwright?
The plural of wheelwright is wheelwrights.

Words near wheelwright in the dictionary

  1. wheelwise
  2. wheelwoman
  3. wheelwomen
  4. wheelwork
  5. wheelworks
  6. wheelwright
  7. wheelwrighting
  8. wheelwrights
  9. wheely
  10. wheelying
  11. wheen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheelwright (page history and authors); Wheelwright (page history and authors); Wheelwright (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wheelwright (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wheelwright (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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