arkwright
nounEtymology From Middle English arkewrytte. By surface analysis, ark + wright.
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Obsolete A maker of cabinets or chests.
- The castle arkwright put in a chequered staircase certainly. It has only one square step, to be steady, yet notwithstumbling are they stalemating backgammoner supstairs by skips and trestles tiltop double corner.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 560:
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- Arkwright