woodwright
nounEtymology From wood + wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.
1
A woodworker.
- These legends of many-sided craftsmanship, of gold and silver and armourer's work, the stories of the masters in marble and stone, the weavers and the dyers, the woodwrights, the carvers and the painters, […]1912, Henry Wilson, On Workmanship: A Lecture, page 20:
- Synonyms
- carpenter, joiner, timberwright, treewright