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Definition of Ship builder
1. Noun. A carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels.
2. Noun. A person who builds ships as a business.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ship Builder
Literary usage of Ship builder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"If a ship-builder built for any money, or for any customer, ... On the other
hand, if you wanted a good ship, you should go to a good, honest ship-builder; ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hall Alderson, William Selwyn (1822)
"A., a ship-builder, contracted with B. to build a ship for B., and com plete her
in April, 1819. The lat ter was to pay for her by fou instalments; ..."
3. Digest of the United States Supreme Court Reports: U. S. Vols. 1-206. L. Ed by United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court, United States (1908)
"Although a state law may croate a lien in favor of a ship builder for materials
furnished, yet such local laws can never confer jurisdiction on the courts ..."
4. Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property: With References by Judah Philip Benjamin, James Manford Kerr (1888)
"An action in trover was brought by the assignees of the bankrupt, and it was held
that the property had passed, "because the ship-builder signed the ..."
5. The Reminiscences of an Idler by Henry Wikoff (1880)
"THE PADISHAH AN AMERICAN SHIP-BUILDER—A DIAMOND SHOW— THE SERAGLIO AND ST. ...
He gave us also a letter to Mr. Rhodes, the American ship-builder in the ..."
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