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
- : 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.
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