"housewright" meaning in English

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          "text": "The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil.",
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          "ref": "1902, Virginia Robie, Colonial furniture, in The House Beautiful (An Illustrated Magazine of Household Art), October 1902 (vol. 12, number 5), Herbert S. Stone, page 270",
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        "A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter)."
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