CARTWRIGHT

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• CARTWRIGHT (noun)
  The noun CARTWRIGHT has 2 senses:

1. English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)

2. a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons

  Familiarity information: CARTWRIGHT used as a noun is rare.

• CARTWRIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cartwright; Edmund Cartwright

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cartwright" is a kind of...):

wright (someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination))

 Context examples 

Five men were in it—these four and a fifth called Cartwright.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Cartwright Bruce was described as the greatest critic in America, and he was quoted as saying that "Ephemera" was the greatest poem ever written in America.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh! Colonel, said she, with her usual noisy cheerfulness, I am monstrous glad to see you—sorry I could not come before—beg your pardon, but I have been forced to look about me a little, and settle my matters; for it is a long while since I have been at home, and you know one has always a world of little odd things to do after one has been away for any time; and then I have had Cartwright to settle with— Lord, I have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As for Cartwright Bruce, Martin knew that he was the one critic for whose opinions Brissenden had any respect.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On his evidence Cartwright was hanged and the other three got fifteen years apiece.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have submitted the poem to Mr. Cartwright Bruce, the editor went on to say, and he has reported so favorably upon it that we cannot let it go.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)