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Noun: cartwright
Usage: archaic
  1. A workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons
    "The village cartwright was skilled in both woodworking and metalwork"
Noun: Cartwright  'kaa(r)t,rIt
  1. English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
    - Edmund Cartwright

Derived forms: cartwrights

Type of: artificer, discoverer, inventor, wright

Encyclopedia: Cartwright, Nancy