woodwright

English

Etymology

From wood +‎ wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.

Noun

woodwright (plural woodwrights)

1. A woodworker.
   • 1912, Henry Wilson, On Workmanship: A Lecture, page 20:

     These legends of many-sided craftsmanship, of gold and silver and armourer's work, the stories of the masters in marble and stone, the weavers and the dyers, the woodwrights, the carvers and the painters, […]

Synonyms

• carpenter
• joiner
• timberwright
• treewright