smith-wright

English

Noun

smith-wright (plural smith-wrights)

  1. Alternative form of smithwright
    • 1886, A.A. Graham, “Francis C. Sessions”, in Magazine of Western History, page 103:
      These were barbers, smith-wrights, tapsters, coopers, ship-yard lads, white-faced millers, Fort Hillers, and others, all "Mohawks" who As all at once the full-grown imps Light on the deck together,
    • 1924, Katherine Margaret Buck, The Wayland-Dietrich Saga:
      One of the smith-wrights was called Eckebrecht, Amongst the twelve companions starkest there. Now one day as he wrought came Sigurd in To the great smithy with a lordly air, Bidding him move his tools and give him room ;
    • 1932, Samuel Forbes Rockwell, Davis Families of Early Roxbury and Boston, page 39:
      Richard Davis of Dorchester was a smith-wright, whatever that may have been, and in the inventory of his probate record appears "ye Shoppe" with two cast anvils, bellows, and other tools for a smithwright.
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