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shipwright - use in sentences
Converse of object
- become: But Mary was adventurous and wanted more of her life, and thus she became the first female shipwright.
- include: Other locations of interest include a shipwright 's cottage and a reconstructed Inn of the sort used by sailors ashore.
Adjective modifier
- local: St Mary's Church with box pews dating from the 15th century and a roof constructed by local shipwrights.
- medieval: Any form of clinker hull, even the triple clinker of the late medieval English shipwrights, was totally unsuitable for such treatment.
- former: Members of the Navy Board tended to be professional men drawn from the service, either officers or former shipwrights.
- English: Any form of clinker hull, even the triple clinker of the late medieval English shipwrights, was totally unsuitable for such treatment.
- skilled: Odysseus made his raft as wide as a skilled shipwright makes the hull of a broad-beamed trading vessel.
- professional: The surveyor was also accompanied by professional barge shipwrights.
Modifies a noun
- shop: It was also planned to set up a shipwrights shop and forge nearby.
Noun used with modifier
- master: A Dutch master shipwright was commissioned in 1625 to build four new ships, including the Vasa.
- apprentice: Indeed, my first employment upon leaving school was as an apprentice shipwright, based on the St Andrew's Dock in Hull.
- Govan: Following the imprisonment of the Govan shipwrights, official trade union representatives called for a public inquiry into their case.
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