Word Meanings - HOUSEWRIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A builder of houses.

Related words: (words related to HOUSEWRIGHT)

• BUILDER
  One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
• JERRY-BUILDER
  A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.
• HOUSEBUILDER
  One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.