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shipwright

/ship-rahyt/US // ˈʃɪpˌraɪt //UK // (ˈʃɪpˌraɪt) //

造船师,造船商,造船家,造船厂主

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Shipbuilding.

    • : a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels.

Examples

  • The Chews got into the logging business because they’re builders and shipwrights and it was too expensive to bring up timber from Washington.

  • He complained that he had gone to see a great prince, and had found only an industrious shipwright.

  • In all ages a great ship is a great wonder, representing for the time the final triumph of the shipwright's art.

  • This friend was a foreman shipwright, who, since his return from America, had borne the name of Tom Robson.

  • But she knew that was only because, like Peter the Great in a shipwright's yard, he was studying what he wanted to know.

  • A Boston shipwright was sent South to select live oak, red cedar, and hard pine.