wheelwright

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a craftsperson who builds and repairs wheels, especially traditional wooden spoked wheels

   The wheelwright fitted an iron tire around the newly built wooden wheel.

From Middle English whelwryghte, a compound of wheel + wright. Wright descends from Old English wyrhta, 'worker or maker,' and survives chiefly in craft names such as shipwright and wheelwright. The compound therefore means 'wheel maker' and traditionally names a specialist in wooden spoked wheels.

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