shipbuilder

English

Etymology

From ship +‎ builder.

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Noun

shipbuilder (plural shipbuilders)

  1. A person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.
    • 1902, James Miller Guinn, Historical and Biographical Record of Southern California: Containing a History of Southern California from Its Earliest Settlement to the Opening Year of the Twentieth Century; Also Containing Biographies of Well-known Citizens of the Past and Present‎[1], Chapman Publishing Company, page 471:
      Referring to the genealogy of the Dobie family, we find that it can be traced back to the sixteenth century, when the Dobies of Dobie's Lane were prominent shipbuilders in the seaport town of Leith, Scotland.
  2. A firm that specializes in building ships.

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