See metalwright in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1957 August 21, Elizabeth Morgan, “Baby-Rocking Mother---Plug That Cradle In”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume XC, number 56, Atlanta, Ga., page 14:",
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"ref": "1974, James D[aniel] Hardy, Jr., Arthur J. Slavin, “An Era of Revolution”, in Boyd H. Hill, Jr., editor, The Western World: The Development of Modern Civilization, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, part two (The Modern World), page 250:",
"text": "The first element of iron manufacture that changed in the eighteenth century was the fuel. In 1709 coke—cooked coal with the sulphur driven off—was used successfully in casting iron. Abraham Darby, a Quaker millwright and metalwright, found the process while experimenting at his small plant in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.",
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"text": "The dwarrows, who are metalwrights as well as stonecrafters, reveal that the sword Minneyar that Josua’s people seek is actually the blade known as Bright-Nail, which was buried with Prester John, father of Josua and Elias.",
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"ref": "2001, Ian Irvine, Geomancer: A Tale of The Three Worlds (The Well of Echoes; 1), London: Orbit, published 2002, →ISBN, page 513:",
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"ref": "2002, Stephen Bowkett, Thaw (The Wintering), London: Dolphin Paperbacks, Orion Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 138:",
"text": "Though we are dark of cast, and labour in shadowy places, we are master metalwrights and produce tools and weapons that glitter and gleam as the outcome of our craft.",
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"ref": "2004, Carol Berg, Son of Avonar (The Bridge of D’Arnath; 1), New York, N.Y.: Roc, →ISBN, page 152:",
"text": "You would go to sleep as a modestly capable boy or girl, plagued with the normal confusions of being neither child nor adult, and then awaken the next day as a Gardener or a Builder or a Metalwright or a Healer.",
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"ref": "2008, Jay Lake, Escapement, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 66:",
"text": "And on they went, looking at and occasionally talking to metalwrights, watermen, diggers, jackers, electrickmen, chemists, assayers—an Industrial Revolution’s worth of men, al-Wazir realized.",
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"text": "It was he who built King’s Hall, bringing masons and metalwrights from beyond the Silvercades. […] ‘It’s a common enough Kir name,’ said Adris. ‘Markash, Bekash, Sorkash, Yankash, we have them all here, come Summerend Fair. Most are metalwrights. The gates of King’s Hall are Kir work.’",
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"text": "“I was to see him the halfweek before, to plead for a reduction in the taxes he has placed on us. Impossible, to pay such a fee, and no reason for imposing it. The metalwrights are always willing to do our share, but there need must be a reason for it! He cripples us to build his treasury, and forces honest men to find work elsewhere.” / “The day I meet an honest metalwright, I’ll eat your hat,” a third voice said.",
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"text": "At least there was a shortage of ammunition, and he doubted that Aeritan had the technology to make more. The smiths and metalwrights were good, but there was only so much they could do, and making modern ammo was beyond their capabilities.",
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"text": "It was he who built King’s Hall, bringing masons and metalwrights from beyond the Silvercades. […] ‘It’s a common enough Kir name,’ said Adris. ‘Markash, Bekash, Sorkash, Yankash, we have them all here, come Summerend Fair. Most are metalwrights. The gates of King’s Hall are Kir work.’",
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