Definition of "housewright" []

• A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter). (noun)

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• "His father, Onesiphorous Tileston, also a housewright and a man of wealth, was captain of the"
• "A housewright, was born in Boston, in 1745, and died in 1806."
• "Was a housewright, on Foster's wharf, in 1789, and at 5 Bennet Street, in 1796."