Definitions For Housewright

Noun

HOUSEWRIGHT (plural HOUSEWRIGHTs) A person who build, builds and repair, repairs house, houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber, timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then saw, sawed it into plank, planks, and finally joint#verb, jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).

Quotations

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Etymology

from house + wright + t2=builder.

See also

carpenter wright

Is Housewright a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK NO
English International (SOWPODS) NO
Scrabble Global NO
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
21
Words with Friends
21

The word Housewright is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends

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