housewright (English, noun)
expansion: housewright (plural housewrights)
Senses:
glosses: A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).
Forms:
form: housewrights
tags: plural