Crossword clues for wheelwright
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wheelwright \Wheel"wright`\, n. A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones.
WordNet
n. someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels [syn: wheeler]
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Housing Units (2000): 236
Land area (2000): 1.742557 sq. miles (4.513202 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 1.742557 sq. miles (4.513202 sq. km)
FIPS code: 82272
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.331465 N, 82.719064 W
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Wikipedia
A wheelwright is a person who builds or repairs wooden wheels. The word is the combination of "wheel" and the archaic word " wright", which comes from the Old English word "wryhta", meaning a worker or maker. This occupational name eventually became the English surname Wheelwright.
Recorded in the spellings of Wheelwright, Wheelright, and originally Whelewryghte, this is an English and singepore occupational surname.Describing a skilled maker of wheeled vehicles and probably members of the ancient Guild of Wheelwrights, it is like Wheelhouse often Yorkshire in origin, and rarely found elsewhere in medieval times. Why this should be so when the development of wheeled vehicles was nationwide, is unclear. Certainly the majority of early recordings are from Englands largest county, and perhaps as York is situated midway between London and Edinburgh, and was the capital city of the north, this geographical siting may have had some influence on the development of the skill of wheel-wrighting. What is certain is that the surname appears at least three times in the Poll Tax registers for the city of York, in the year 1379, when Willelmus Whelewryghte, and what is believed to have been his two brothers Robertus and Johannes, are so recorded. The first known recording though is from the county of Essex. This was Walter Welwryhte, who appears in the Hundred Rolls for that county in the year 1273. This was during the first year of the reign of King Edward 1st of England (1272 - 1307), renowned in some circles for being known as 'The Hammer of the Scots'. tradesmen made wheels for carts and wagons by first constructing the hub (called the nave), the spokes and the rim/felloe segments (pronounced fellies) and assembling them all into a unit working from the center of the wheel outwards. Most wheels were made from wood, but other materials have been used, such as bone and horn, for decorative or other purposes. Some earlier construction for wheels such as those used in early chariots were bound by rawhide that would be applied wet and would shrink whilst drying, compressing and binding the woodwork together. After many centuries wheels evolved to be straked with iron, a method of nailing iron plates onto the felloes to protect against wear on the ground and to help bind the wheel together.
Over millennia the overall appearance of the wheel barely changed but subtle changes to the design of a wooden wheel such as dishing and staggered spokes helped keep up with the demands of a changing world.
A wheelwright is a person who builds or repairs wheels.
Wheelwright may also refer to:
Wheelwright is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Edmund M. Wheelwright (1854–1912), American architect
- Edward Lawrence Wheelwright (1921–2007), Australian economist and political theorist,
- Horace William Wheelwright (1815–1865), English naturalist and writer
- John Wheelwright (1592–1679), English clergyman and early American settler
- John Brooks Wheelwright (1897–1940), American poet
- Philip Wheelwright (1901–1970), American philosopher
- William Wheelwright (born 1798), American businessman
Category:English-language surnames
Usage examples of "wheelwright".
A servant came and told me that the wheelwright had arrived, and that he would take four hours to mend my carriage, so I went downstairs.
Morosini and Querini came into the courtyard and looked at the carriage, which was being inspected by the wheelwright.
There was a cobbler at his elbow, and a wheelwright, and a butcher, and one or two other aspiring gentlefolk from the market fringe.
There were coopers and wheelwrights, cobblers and carpenters, saddlers and candlemakers, all busily at work to maintain the huge household of King Anheg.
A many comely nymphs drew nigh to starboard and to larboard and, clinging to the sides of the noble bark, they linked their shining forms as doth the cunning wheelwright when he fashions about the heart of his wheel the equidistant rays whereof each one is sister to another and he binds them all with an outer ring and giveth speed to the feet of men whenas they ride to a hosting or contend for the smile of ladies fair.
Before long we saw Clairmont reappear with two servants, one of whom invited me, on behalf of his master, to await the arrival of the wheelwright at his house.
At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a millwright near Macclesfield, and soon after completing his apprenticeship he set up in business for himself as a wheelwright at Leek, quickly becoming known for his ingenuity and skill in repairing all kinds of machinery.
Alexandre-Honore, with Montoir the wheelwright, at Saint-Pierre, near Rougemont, in Calvados.
When she heard Mathieu speak of the hamlet of Saint-Pierre, of Montoir the wheelwright, and of Alexandre-Honore, now fifteen, who must be in apprenticeship there, she evinced great surprise.
The alert had certainly come from the inquiry intrusted to the nurse-agent at Rougemont, that visit which she had made to the hamlet of Saint-Pierre in quest of information respecting the lad who was supposed to be in apprenticeship with Montoir the wheelwright.
Repton, he is a wheelwright by trade, and Nat Somner he keeps the village shop.
Cuno had gone, I asked Equus about him and learned that he had drifted into town a few years earlier and worked for several months with the old wheelwright whose business he now owned.
A wheelwright inspected my coach and pronounced the axle-tree broken, and told me I should have to remain for a day at least.
The next day I rose at day-break to hurry on the wheelwright, and when the work was done I asked if the countess were visible.
Morosini and Querini came into the courtyard and looked at the carriage, which was being inspected by the wheelwright.