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Definitions of Housewright:
  • name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #35555)
  • noun:   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:   A surname.

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