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Shipbuilder

noun

A carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels. Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright.

A person who builds ships as a business. Synonym: ship builder.

A business that builds and repairs ships.

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Etymology of 'Shipbuilder'

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"Shipbuilder" Quotes from Famous Books

... New York, he was a man of good education, and began his career on a privateer in the West Indies. Later on he was sent by a Mr. Philips, owner and shipbuilder, to trade with the pirates in Madagascar. This business Burgess augmented with a little piracy on his own account, and after taking several prizes he returned to the West Indies, where he disposed of his loot. He then proceeded ...

— The Pirates' Who's Who - Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers • Philip Gosse

... Ottomans were not quite invincible, Venice plucked up heart, and began to prepare for hostilities with her temporary ally. The interval of friendliness had been turned to good account by the Turks. Y[a]ni, the Christian shipbuilder of the Sultan, had studied the improvements of the Venetians, and he now constructed two immense kokas, seventy cubits long and thirty in the beam, with masts of several trees spliced together, measuring four cubits round. Forty men in armour might stand in the maintop and fire down ...

— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole

Words linked to "Shipbuilder" : concern, business organisation, constructor, business organization, builder, shipbuilding industry, business concern, business, wright