housewright

housewright
A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden ones. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, one who would cut timber in the quantity required for the construction of a house, saw it into planks, and joint and assemble them (as a carpenter would).

The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil.


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