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
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.
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