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boatbuilder

[ boht-bil-der ]

noun

  1. a person who builds boats.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boatbuilder1

First recorded in 1670–80; boat + builder

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Example Sentences

Mr. William Moody, boatbuilder, a liver-complexioned citizen, undertook to reply.

Once, when he saw a stranded English boat, he sent for a boatbuilder to make him a sailboat and to teach him how to manage it.

On the second night after his arrival, he walked with the boatbuilder upon the wooden quay.

Hans looked triumphantly at Tom Nedley, and the boatbuilder scratched his head.

Henry Greathead—a boatbuilder of South Shields—erroneously got the credit of this invention.

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