English
Etymology
From Middle English whelwryghte; equivalent to wheel + wright.
Pronunciation
Noun
wheelwright (plural wheelwrights)
- (chiefly historical) A person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones.
- Synonym: wheelmaker
- Hypernyms: wright < person
- Near-synonym: wheelsmith
1971, George Ewart Evans, Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900[1], Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 32:The wheels are the wright's distinguishing mark of his trade. It is the wheels that separate him off from the craft of carpenter: a wheelwright is equal to any job in the carpenter's craft but a carpenter cannot make a wheel [with commensurate quality and speed]. Percy Wilson [a wheelwright interviewed by the author] confessed that making the body of a Scotch cart—or of any vehicle for that matter—was a much simpler job than making the wheels […]
Derived terms
Translations
person who builds and repairs wheels
- Afrikaans: wielmaker
- Albanian: karrondreqës
- Azerbaijani: təkərçi
- Belarusian: колавы майстар m (kólavy majstar)
- Bulgarian: майстор каруцар m (majstor karucar)
- Catalan: ruedero m
- Czech: kolář (cs) m
- Danish: hjulmager c
- Dutch: wagenmaker (nl) m, wielmaker (nl) m
- Esperanto: ĉarfarado, veturilfarado
- Estonian: ratassepp
- Finnish: vaunuseppä (fi), pyöräseppä (fi)
- French: charron (fr) m
- German: Wagner (de) m, Radmacher m, Stellmacher (de) m
- Greek: τροχοτεχνίτης (trochotechnítis), τροχοποιός (el) (trochopoiós), ροδάς (rodás), αμαξουργός m (amaxourgós)
- Ancient Greek: κυκλεύς (kukleús)
- Hungarian: bognár (hu), kerékgyártó (hu)
- Ingrian: ratasmaasteri
- Irish: rothadóir m
- Italian: carradore (it) m, carrettaio m
- Japanese: 車大工 (kurumadaiku)
- Kashubian: kòłodzéj
- Latin: rotārius m, rotāria f
- Latvian: ratnieks m
- Lithuanian: račius m
- Luxembourgish: Woner m
- Norman: charron m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjulmaker (no) m
- Polish: kołodziej (pl) m
- Romanian: caretaș (ro) m, rotar (ro) m
- Russian: колёсный ма́стер m (koljósnyj máster), коле́сник (ru) m (kolésnik)
- Sanskrit: सूत (sa) m (sūta)
- Scottish Gaelic: rothadair m, roithlear m, saor-chuidhleachan m
- Serbo-Croatian: kolar (sh) m, kolesar (sh) m
- Sicilian: carritteri (scn) m
- Slovak: kolár m
- Slovene: kolár m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kołoźej m
- Upper Sorbian: kołodźej m
- Spanish: ruedero m
- Swedish: hjulmakare
- Ukrainian: сте́льмах m (stélʹmax), колісни́к m (kolisnýk), колоді́й m (kolodíj)
- Vilamovian: kołodźej m, roder m, rodmaher m
- Volapük: vabel (vo)
- Welsh: saer troliau m
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