housewright

== English == === Etymology === From house +‎ wright (“builder”). === Noun === housewright (plural housewrights) 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). 1902, Virginia Robie, Colonial furniture, in The House Beautiful (An Illustrated Magazine of Household Art), October 1902 (vol. 12, number 5), Herbert S. Stone, page 270 1914, Alfred Johnson, History and genealogy of one line of descent from Captain Edward Johnson: together with his English ancestry, 1500-1914, Stanhope Press (F.H. Gilson Company), page 63 ==== Quotations ==== For quotations using this term, see Citations:housewright. === See also === carpenter wright === References === 1852, A Literary Association, A hand-book of Anglo-Saxon orthography, John A. Gray, pages 75 and 80. 1913, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G & C. Merriam Co., page 710