Key facts
- Occupation.name
- Wheelwright
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- File:Wagenmaker.jpg
- Occupation.caption
- A wheelwright taps felloes onto spoke ends
- Occupation.activity_sector
- Trades
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- History
- Parts of a wheel
- Industrial age
- Wheelwrighting today
- The future
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thumb|A wheelwright's shop
A wheelwright is a craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels. The word is the combination of "wheel" and the word "wright" (which comes from the Old English word "wryhta", meaning a worker - as also in shipwright and arkwright). This occupational name became the English surname Wright, and also appears in surnames like Cartwright and Wainwright.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “wheelwright” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.