shipwright (shiprit)

[ In Isabella he lefte only certeyne sicke men and shippe wrightes, whom he had appointed to make certeyne carauels. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on [America, ed. Arber, p. 82). Why such impre of shipwrights , whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week? Shak ., Hamlet, i. 1. 75. 2. A local English name of the spotted ling: so called because it has "a resemblance to the spilt pitch on the clothes of these mechanics." Day.