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wheelwright

/hweel-rahyt, weel-/US // ˈʰwilˌraɪt, ˈwil- //UK // (ˈwiːlˌraɪt) //

舵手,轮机师,轮机长,车工

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person whose trade it is to make or repair wheels, wheeled carriages, etc.

Examples

  • The wheelwright fells trees "with the gleaming iron," iron being a synonym for axe and for knife.

  • At the supper table he was given the seat of honor, Mrs. Wheelwright being on his right and Stella on his left.

  • Almost covered by the wood stores of a wheelwright is a doorway with carved spandrils, and a label ending in sculptured heads.

  • Dolly Winthrop, the wife of the jolly wheelwright who makes one of the company at the "Rainbow," is no less admirable.

  • There was a shoemaker—two of them—a tailor or two, a blacksmith, a wheelwright.