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Jul 12, 2011

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Professions that exist mainly as surnames

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chandler
wainwright
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with Anu Garg

wainwright

PRONUNCIATION:

(WAYN-ryt)

MEANING:

noun: One who builds or repairs wagons.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English waen/waegen (wagon) + wryhta/wyrhta (worker). Earliest documented use: around 1000.

USAGE:

"Macon engaged a wainwright to build one of the great wagons."
Lily Lashley Price; Taste of Ashes; Trafford; 2010.

See more usage examples of wainwright in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)

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