housewright

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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).
    — The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil.

词形变化

housewrights plural

词源

From house + wright (“builder”).
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