Meaning

A metalworker..

Example Sentences

[No.] 207 [Name of Person Listed] Shoener William M [Year of Birth] 1899 [Residence, 1952] Same [Occupation] Metalwright

The cradle part of the demonstrator model is lined with foam rubber and covered with pink quilting. A metalwright by trade, Mr. Paramore described three built-in motions — glide (linear movement back and forth), rock (end-to-end seesaw motion), and jump (up-and-down bounce).

The Henry W. VanDykes, 207 Rosedale ave­nue, (he’s the metalwright at Doehler-Jarvis division) are planning a coastwise cruise from New York to San Francisco that will take them through the Panama canal. VanDyke is a veteran sailor who comes naturally by his love for the sea. His father was cap­tain of a Great Lakes ship and the son work­ed on vessels there . . .

The first element of iron manufacture that changed in the eighteenth century was the fuel. In 1709 coke—cooked coal with the sulphur driven off—was used successfully in casting iron. Abraham Darby, a Quaker millwright and metalwright, found the process while experimenting at his small plant in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.

It was two hours later when the carefree metalwright swung along Harrington Street heading for his favorite pub, the chill of the winter evening warmed by the glow that comes with Friday and two days of leisure lying ahead.

The dwarrows, who are metalwrights as well as stonecrafters, reveal that the sword Minneyar that Josua’s people seek is actually the blade known as Bright-Nail, which was buried with Prester John, father of Josua and Elias.

Using fallen stone from the gate top, the masons erected two well-finished dyke walls just outside the gate, and the incandescent glare of oxylene torches fizzled in the night rain as the metalwrights crafted pavises and hoardings from broken tank plates.

In their few free moments, Nish and every other able person laboured with stone and timber for the carpenters, the masons and the metalwrights as they worked to improve the defences of the manufactory.

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• metalwrights

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