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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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"Shipbuilder" Quotes from Famous Books

... therefore he established a navy yard at Vergennes, in Vermont, seven miles up the Otter River, and at the mouth erected earthworks and batteries. He sent for Brown (of the firm of Adam and Noah Brown) a famous New York shipbuilder. Brown agreed to launch a ship of twenty-four guns in sixty days. The trees were standing in the forest on March 2d the keel was laid March 7th, and on April 11th the Saratoga was launched—forty days after the timbers were green standing trees ...

— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

... responsibility of seeing to it that those arteries suffer no obstruction of any kind, no inefficiency or slackened power. To the merchant let me suggest the motto, "Small profits and quick service"; and to the shipbuilder the thought that the life of the war depends upon him. The food and the war supplies must be carried across the seas no matter how many ships are sent to the bottom. The places of those that go down must be supplied and supplied at once. To the miner let me say ...

— President Wilson's Addresses • Woodrow Wilson

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