housewright
/hˈaʊsɹˌaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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).
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil."
- "The names of the colonial craftsmen had changed. The joiner and the turner and the housewright had become the cabinet-maker, the chair-maker, and the carpenter."
- "John Johnson resided in Woburn, Mass., and was by occupation a housewright or carpenter and owned a saw-mill in Woburn."